Bret Stephens Quotes

Many of you have been reared on the cliche that the purpose of education isn't to stuff your head with facts but to teach you how to think. Wrong.

Bret Stephens

Recitation: by Male by Female

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I always feel like I'm warring with my womanhood and wanting the world to be better, and with my blackness - which is the opposite of whiteness.

Jessica Williams

WorldBetterFeelAlwaysOpposite

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

Joel Edgerton

EyesExperienceMeIndiaWayFirst

I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him.

Andre Previn

AdmireHimEmulateCarterEndlessly

Our economic future and our energy future are one in the same, and it's a future America can't shrink from. We must shape it, just as we've always done. We have to protect our planet from the threat of climate change and ensure that workers have the skills to compete for good middle-class jobs.

Tom Perez

ChangeGoodFutureEnergyAmerica

It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.

Mira Nair

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If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

Christopher Paolini

WorkTimePeopleThinkWriteWould

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

Brian Eno

MusicIdeasYouPlayKindFinish

The last reunion was a bit of a rushed job, we had to do a gig and documentary.

Brian Harvey

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I never thought of getting married again. I'm quite difficult to live with, I think.

Anne Reid

LiveThinkThoughtNeverDifficult

My father was a newspaper editor, so I was surrounded by journalists my entire life. I think the fact that he was so well known may be why I chose to go into magazines and move to the States at a young age.

Anna Wintour

LifeFatherAgeThinkGoYoung

We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often, we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.

Alicia Keys

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To be a good leader, you have to be a good communicator. As a leader, you have to communicate your intent every chance you get, and if you fail to do that, you will pay the consequences.

William H. McRaven

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