Martin Jacques Quotes

In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that the United States was likely to be the extant superpower for several decades to come. Few anticipated how quickly the neoconservative project would run into the sands - or that China would rise so quickly.

Martin Jacques

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RiseRunProjectChinaSuperpower

I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.

Jodie Foster

BelieveMoviesPersonalLivedEssay

I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.

Jessica Alba

SpeakInterestingWishPlayMore

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.

Max Lerner

DreamThingsCallBeingPolitician

Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.

John James Audubon

DaySchoolEvery DayFieldsGoing

My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.

Merry Clayton

MotherChildPatientGene

An awful lot of food is thrown away. This you can call a spillover. It doesn't sort of enter into our economic system because it's a consequence of running things in a highly competitive way: the free market, global pricing and so on.

John Sulston

FoodFreeYouWaySystemMarket

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.

Tom Jenkinson

KnowledgeIdeasFirstProgramming

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Robert Collier

WorldForwardStandYouGoSafe

When I studied at Juilliard, I did a lot of pushups and became this diesel machine. I was really big and was like, 'This is not a good look for an ingenue.'

Rutina Wesley

GoodLookBigLikeMachineDiesel

The way I've gotten things done is by working with Democrats and Republicans. I worked with Jay Rockefeller, for example, on highway safety issues.

Mike DeWine

SafetyDoneWayThingsDemocrats

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

Mike Figgis

TimeMeForwardLossInnocenceSay

Wolverine is a world-weary old warrior. His rage issue notwithstanding, I see him as someone with the tortured soul of a poet, but one who has seen too many friends and lovers die. Even with that, he has grown into a leader and a true hero.

Jonathan Maberry

LeaderHeroSoulSomeoneDieTrue

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