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Richard Holbrooke Quotes

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

Richard Holbrooke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: public
Nationality: american
Birth: April 24, 1941 - December 13, 2010

Topics

People Evil View Hold Left Behind

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.

People Problems America Know Racial

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

Earth Same Dust Creator Us Common

The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.

Change Change The World Crazy World

I almost didn't turn pro at all. I was tempted to be a career amateur. I worked as an investment banker for nine months after I got out of school, and the money was fantastic and promised to get even more lucrative.

Money School Career Investment More

My life is very exciting now.

Life My Life Now Exciting Very

Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?

Ugly People Someone You Seen Get

Despite a campaign that was based on a very powerful promise of transparency, President Obama, and again in my view quite correctly, has used the state secrets argument in a variety of courts, as much as President Bush.

View Powerful Secrets Transparency

I'd just as soon do a big-budget movie as an independent one.

Independent Just Soon Movie

A lot of times, the inspiration for a novel is a messy bird's nest of shiny things. Little things that don't make a whole lot of sense or that, no matter how hard you look, cannot be found directly in the finished book.

Bird Little Things Book You Look

Sydney has taken my money, Melbourne has my respect, but Adelaide has taken my heart; I shall return.

Miriam Margolyes

Heart Respect Money Sydney Melbourne

Anders Thomas Jensen and I had talked about making a movie which addressed the cancer issue, and we didn't want to make it heavy-handed. We wanted to do something which had a lot of hope in it. And then for some reason we came up with a romantic comedy.

Hope Romantic Comedy Want Reason Up

I think I'm used to competition. YouTube is a daily competition. I'm used to that, and I'm used to hate coming from everywhere on the Internet.

Daily Hate Competition Think YouTube

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