Richard Holbrooke Quotes

By the way, if you do your job on behalf of your country, you have meetings where you put your position forward strongly, and the other side does the same thing. And I've had plenty of meetings in my career that really were heated, people yelling at each other.

Richard Holbrooke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.

Jenna Fischer

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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn't really push the envelope at home.

Rory Kinnear

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When I started the diamond business, no black person, period, was in it to do what we're trying to do to change the industry. So I like to do things that I see clearly that are in my, you know, scope. And then, I had to figure how I get talented or smart business people around me to execute. That's what I have to do.

Russell Simmons

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It's not easy to stand out as a young artist.

Chris Lane

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You can't say for certain what will happen to the weather in the long term.

Christopher Monckton

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It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

Cory Doctorow

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My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live in a house because my brother went in the service during Vietnam and I was sole support of my mother. And she had no skills, really, except to clean other people's houses. So I had to have a bunch of jobs, you know, as well as music.

Bob Seger

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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Arthur Ashe

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In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.

Philip Yancey

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If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance.

Suze Orman

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I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.

Thomas Kinkade

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