Martin Jacques Quotes

Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Britain's inability to maintain its role.

Martin Jacques

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PowerProfoundOverSystemRole

There is no prospect of any of us being able to kick out any of the presidents of Europe; they operate in a sphere and a realm well away from and out of reach of and out of touch with the people.

Michael Gove

PeopleReachTouchEuropeOutWell

Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but even then, air power rarely succeeds by itself in destroying a regime's ability to command and control its forces.

Michael Ignatieff

PowerControlLimitsBridgesAbility

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

John Wayne

LibertyIndividual

'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.

John Woo

HardHong KongAudienceWestFilm

I'm a really big advocate of ethical fashion. I actually have a travelling boutique called Maison de Mode, which is all about ethical fashion. I also like Maiyet from Paris. They're very Celine-esque in their silhouettes. I love their back story, too: they work with orphans in Colombia and India.

Amanda Hearst

WorkLoveFashionStoryBackIndia

I love the process of making a movie so much as an actor that I can only imagine I would love the process of being the director.

Tom Holland

LoveProcessI CanActorDirector

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

Robert Duvall

GodWrongNothingShouting

The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.

Rob Walton

GoodBusinessPeopleAmericaSales

Almost everybody thinks that the fight is about ideology. Everybody will tell you, 'Well, the fighting is all about the Middle East.' 'Well, it's about Muslims starting jihad.' 'It's about terrorism.' 'It's about this or that.' And no, it's not. It's about money.

Roger Waters

MoneyFightFightingYouTerrorism

I was an original Elvis fan. He was the voice of my generation. I was listening to him on the radio when he released his great Sun records with Scotty Moore on electric guitar and Bill Black on bass.

Ronnie Milsap

GreatSunListeningVoiceGeneration

Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.

Rowan Williams

GodCharacterBibleChristianSex

I've been singing my entire life. The guitar came to me later on down the road.

Luke Combs

LifeMeSingingRoadGuitarDown

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