Dennis C. Blair Quotes

There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.

Dennis C. Blair

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 4, 1947

Topics

CommunityStormPerfectElectionUp

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

Jerry Seinfeld

SmallSomeoneEnvironmentTaskWhole

Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.

Jessica Alba

MotherMeMessBigBeingJust

I've hurt people unnecessarily when it was about my own insecurities. But you have to make those mistakes to become a better person.

Joel Kinnaman

MistakesPeopleBetter PersonBetter

As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I'm focused on football because the NFL is knocking on my door and I'm not going to slam it in its face.

Robert Griffin III

FootballDoorFaceLongI CanRun

My personal aesthetic is to be affected directly by everything about what you're seeing... I don't mind being dashed on the rocks... My most base act of defiance is to live a long time and still rock.

Jeff Buckley

LiveTimeMindAestheticYouSeeing

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

John Searle

StyleSimpleYourselfQuestionsYou

When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or 'I am going to be a crime writer in the Christie tradition'.

Sophie Hannah

MyselfI AmThinkTraditionCrime

A person might see that I've blurbed a certain book and decide they want nothing to do with it! Like, 'If that reprobate Toews likes it, forget it!' So, it's a crapshoot. But it feels good to be able to praise a book that I love or that has been written by a new writer.

Miriam Toews

LoveGoodBookPersonNewForget

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

Mitch Hedberg

GreatYouWantEatHungryRice

I'm very generous, and I really want people to see that I am - that's really it.

Millie Bobby Brown

I AmPeopleWantSeeGenerousVery

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'

Colin Powell

MeBlackThinkYouStopTalk

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

ChangeMenNeverOnlyWisest

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