Thomas P.M. Barnett Quotes

The most important thing you need to know about the Pentagon is that it is not in charge of today's wars but rather tomorrow's wars.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Recitation: by Male by Female

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TodayTomorrowYouKnowImportant

People can be so heartless and dirty.

Jim Goad

PeopleDirtyHeartless

Looking at younger artists, like Varda Caivano and Kerstin Bratsch, I see that their work has something in common that is new to my generation. There's an effort to value the evidence of the hand and the handmade thing while also acknowledging the way in which the making of things with hands has such a complex, alienated place in our culture.

Jessica Stockholder

WorkCultureValueEffortLooking

I really, really love directing films.

John Frankenheimer

LoveDirectingReallyFilms

It's hard for me to feel bad when I'm writing well.

Meg Wolitzer

MeWritingFeelBadHardWell

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

Max de Pree

LifeBeautifulDiversityJoySpace

'The Wire' is my all-time favourite show. It takes its time, and it doesn't spoon-feed the viewer.

Ruth Bradley

TimeShowTakesFavouriteWire

I am too ambitious to get into a relationship.

Mona Singh

RelationshipI AmGetAmbitiousAm

The only way to get vegetables at a diner late night is to order the omelette. A feta cheese and broccoli omelette.

Lisa Loeb

NightLateVegetablesCheeseWay

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

NatureSadEyesTearsBetterSee

I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me and followed me around in my dreams.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

DreamsMeLovedWorkingFlies

My mother lived through the Great Depression. Her family of 11 children pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and moved to wherever there was work at the time. And in rural Oklahoma, that wasn't easy to find.

Chuck Norris

WorkFamilyMotherChildrenGreat

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

Augustus Hare

GoodMenThinkBadMoreAct

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