Bret Stephens Quotes

I wear two hats at the 'Wall Street Journal': one as a columnist, the other as the editor responsible for our editorial pages in Asia and Europe.

Bret Stephens

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In the start-up setting and in most companies, the output is action-oriented. You need to be getting things done and making decisions, often with limited information.

Andrew Yang

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I used comedy to deflect a lot of situations; if you make someone laugh, they don't want to punch you in the face.

Mel Rodriguez

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My standard Nando's order is a chicken breast burger served 'medium,' which is still fairly spicy.

John Lanchester

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I'm allowed to maintain some modicum of privacy. But also, I would like not to be picked apart or for people to observe when I put on 10 pounds or take off 10 pounds, or I have a hair extension out of place, or my fake tan is botched.

Sia

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If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

Roberto Cavalli

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I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.

Michael Kiwanuka

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There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Lucian Freud

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As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.

Debbie Reynolds

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I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.

Christopher Parker

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Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

Christopher Walken

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I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.

Colin Farrell

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I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.' End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I've been rewriting that same story over and over again. All my plays are rewriting that same story.

August Wilson

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