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Thomas P.M. Barnett Quotes

Most Americans have little idea of how far our nation's worldwide standing had fallen by the end of the Bush administration; no matter how bad you thought it had gotten, it was worse.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: 1962

Topics

Thought End You Bad Matter How Far

I certainly never thought I would run for office myself. If someone had suggested it, I would have laughed out loud.

Jennifer Granholm

Myself Thought Someone Run Office

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

Maya Angelou

Man Me Early Village Talk Mean

If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.

Robert Kiyosaki

Money Learn You Down Know Will

I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about it.'

Steven Heighton

Story Thought Literature More Used

In the beginning, I thought mobile search was not much different from Web search. It's just a smaller screen, a slower speed; it's all the bad things. When I thought about mobile Internet, it's all the disadvantages.

Robin Li

Beginning Thought Search Internet

I'm a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in '96. He was on a record with Shabban Siddiq. I was like, 'Who is this guy? He's dope!' First album came out: awesome. Second album came out: awesome. Third album, I was like, 'Eh.' He started to get really successful. He wasn't 'mine' anymore.

Russell Peters

Time Hip-Hop Dope First Time First

Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial.

Jonathan Kozol

Think Giving America Said Three

My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.

Joni Mitchell

Goal Comfort More Writer Disturb

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Determined Things Equilibrium Medium

But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war.

Christopher Shays

War More Difficult Keep Would Argue

To do health care was a noble, good thing, and it will help America dramatically. I don't begrudge Barack Obama choosing it, even though if I were president, I might not have.

Chuck Schumer

Good Health Care America Help Will

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Arthur Rimbaud

Brain Weakness Morality