Warren Christopher Quotes

It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.

Warren Christopher

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 27, 1925 - March 18, 2011

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I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'

Jennifer Lee

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I'm over this thing of being champion, having the title.

Anderson Silva

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Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

Meg Whitman

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Being gritty doesn't mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They're able to say things like, 'Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.' That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.

Angela Duckworth

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I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?

Michael Beck

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Before SpaceX, no space company was worth a second meeting.

Steve Jurvetson

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Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.

Roger Ebert

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Oriental reality is called ideology in Europe and America, and Western ideology is called reality in the Orient. Those viewpoints eat into people's souls and form two distinct kinds of beings.

Rudolf Steiner

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Earth to Democrats: Displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move.

Monica Crowley

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'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

Chip Esten

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I was inspired to become an actor from theater I'd seen, so I assumed I'd do a lot of theater. But when I left Guidhall, the first thing I did was a short film - I played the main character. And I loved it. I love working on camera. I love the smallness of it and the detail and the routine of it.

Chloe Pirrie

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Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.

Arthur Henderson

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