Adolfo Aguilar Zinser Quotes
My work at the United Nations discomforted some members of the U.S. government, which exercises its power beyond collective understandings and international law.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
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I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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It was a really big deal to become an American citizen the right way. You have to work really hard, and it is such an honor to be able to say that.
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In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.
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The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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My work at the United Nations discomforted some members of the U.S. government, which exercises its power beyond collective understandings and international law.
