Martin Jacques Quotes

The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and the rest of the world consisted of mere supplicants and bit players.

Martin Jacques

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'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.

Jerry Weintraub

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When it comes to portfolios, my personal advice is for anyone who can, put money into forestry or farmland. Long term, you would probably never come near their returns in the stock market. In the world that I see, land is golden.

Jeremy Grantham

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Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

Anish Kapoor

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When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response.

Ann Hood

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Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.

Michael Dirda

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I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's 'New York Times.'

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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In human geography, we think about landscapes as being political, social, cultural, economic, and physical things all at the same time. And that's the way that I wanted to approach the question of state secrecy.

Trevor Paglen

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I'd most prefer to be a free agent and fight up to six times a year, but that is unlikely.

Mirko Cro Cop

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I get 'female Kendrick' quite a lot. I'm definitely not complaining. At the same time, I want to be the female Simz. I just want to be me.

Little Simz

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I put together amazing records, whether that's finding the beat or putting the right hook on there, and picking the right artists on the record. That's me being an A&R. And I'm making sure that they give me their best.

DJ Khaled

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Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter.

Annalee Newitz

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Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Arthur Koestler

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