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Richard N. Haass Quotes

Our inability to govern ourselves at home, to deal with everything from infrastructure to our debt to tax policy, is reducing the appeal of the American model.

Richard N. Haass

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: diplomat
Nationality: american
Birth: July 28, 1951

Topics

Home American Tax Debt Everything

It took me a long time to write again because Katrina destroyed the home I loved, and that robbed me of hope.

Jesmyn Ward

Home Hope Time Me Loved Long

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

Andre Leon Talley

Waiting Me Doctor Boring Line See

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

Jeanette Winterson

Ambition Believe Think Still I Think

They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Wife Stubborn Say They Say Paid Off

Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do.

Trevor Paglen

Better Artists Understood Than Else

I remember I wanted to be an athlete. I wanted to be in the NFL or NBA or something, and I don't think I dreamed of being a benchwarmer. I'm sure I wanted to be the best. But I didn't really ever think I was going to be a famous musician.

Mike Posner

Best Think Famous Remember Athlete

Any tournament you go to, you want to win it.

Martina Hingis

Win You Go Want Tournament Any

You really have to act on the force, too. You're involved in a hundred things a day, and you have to react in a hundred different ways, depending on what's going on. And you learn that as you go through your career, how you handle certain situations, interrogations, how you carry yourself. There's a kind of acting to it.

Dennis Farina

Day Yourself Learn You Acting Kind

When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

Demian Bichir

Character Time You I Can Possible

Arizonans want us to come together, put aside politics, and solve problems. You want us to do our jobs in way that reflects the best of our state. You want us to stop and listen - something that doesn't always come naturally to people in politics.

Doug Ducey

Best Together Politics People You

I don't watch a lot of TV. I just don't have a whole lot of time, and my life is so disorganized, I don't have any kind of consistent schedule. Usually, I pop in a DVD or flip around when I get home at 4 in the morning and try to fall asleep.

Christopher McCulloch

Life Home Morning Time My Life Fall

When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I kill someone, would you still love me?' My parents were very preoccupied with this, but I think I'm not the only one to ask for that - not love, but absolute fidelity.

Claire Denis

Love Father Mother Morning Parents