Richard N. Haass Quotes

To be sure, many of the Sykes-Picot borders reflected deals cut in Europe rather than local demographic or historical realities. But that hardly makes the Middle East unique: Most borders around the world owe their legacy less to thoughtful design or popular choice than to some mixture of violence, ambition, geography, and chance.

Richard N. Haass

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I love my wife. She had money when I didn't.

Joe Jamail

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I think a show can work anywhere if it's done honestly, with integrity, and with confidence.

Joey McIntyre

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We need a straitjacket around Congress when it comes to spending so that they are forced to do what 49 states are required to do and what every family business and every family is required to do, and that's live within their means.

John Cornyn

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If you're working on 'Doctor Who,' you've got to be the Doctor. So yeah, I think they need a woman Doctor, and that's who I'd like to be.

Stephanie Leonidas

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If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

Romola Garai

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Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.

Rudolf Steiner

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I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.

Michael Tilson Thomas

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My two sons are the biggest pigs - always dirty, sweaty, burping and farting.

Judy Gold

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I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Jean Craighead George

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I think the best content on BuzzFeed is something you share with someone else in your life, and it connects you to them. And that's a big part of what e-mail's about as well.

Jonah Peretti

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Way before we got a record deal, we were playing clubs seven nights a week, three one-hour sets a night. Then we got the record deal, and we took off on the road and stayed out.

Dimebag Darrell

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If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.

Dolly Parton

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