Thomas P.M. Barnett Quotes

Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the 'per billions' of passengers.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

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Being in TV, we get to do it again and again until it's 'right.' There's a part of me that likes the other way, that aspect of theatre where there's no chance to go back.

Jim Parsons

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We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more things remain the same.

Joe Morton

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Online communities are an expression of loneliness.

Joanne Harris

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It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.

John George Nicolay

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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Maya Angelou

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Kyrgios has got to look in the mirror if he wants to become a top player and win Grand Slams.

John McEnroe

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Real food, I've found, is actually better than dieting.

Angelina Jolie

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I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.

John Prescott

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I'm not 100% sure 'Rebecca' qualifies as a thriller, given it's three parts screwed-up love story and two parts ghost-story-without-a-ghost, but the mystery at the heart of the novel is what happened to Maxim's first wife, the eponymous Rebecca, and it's unravelled with the pacing and finesse of the finest psychological thrillers out there.

Ruth Ware

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Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.

Jason Reitman

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Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

Chris Lilley

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

William Inge

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