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Robert D. Kaplan Quotes

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

Robert D. Kaplan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 23, 1952

Topics

Government Control Strong Go Where

Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.

Women Thought Look Important Nice

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

Jessica Valenti

Power Justice Woman Racism Movement

I saw people, and I can't name them of course, that maybe were skeptical at first that were really sold on Donald Trump.

People Name Donald Trump First Saw

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

Loneliness Day Together World Small

A postcolonial writer who has often been credited with mixing the mundane with the magical, and history with fiction, is Salman Rushdie.

History Fiction Magical Mundane Been

For some reason, I don't like the term 'model-turned-actress' - which is what I am, essentially.

Stephanie Corneliussen

I Am Reason Like Some Which Am

Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were... Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?

Robbie Robertson

Time Foundation You Know Want Kids

'Minecraft' is a game about creation, yes. But it is just as much a game about secret knowledge.

Knowledge Game Creation Secret Yes

I've spent many hours of my life browsing in stores. At 21, I admired clothes I couldn't afford. At 30, I bought them. At 40, I sometimes go simply for the pleasure, of seeing what is new, of learning what counts as beautiful now.

Life Learning Beautiful My Life New

I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.

Michelle Dockery

Think Someone Drama Said Sound Poet

The way I eat in my day-to-day life is, like, very simple to the point of being absurd. Like, my boyfriend makes fun of me because if I'm eating a snack, it's often, like, a pickle and then a hard-boiled egg and then crackers and then maybe a carrot, and it's like I'm eating like a baby.

Life Simple Fun Me Baby Eating

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Opportunity Mind Think You Lose Way

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