Fareed Zakaria Quotes

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

Fareed Zakaria

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I'm not advocating spending less on the elderly, but I am strongly advocating spending more on kids while also putting the country on a sound, long-term fiscal trajectory. To do that, we have to reduce the rate of growth of entitlement-related expenditures and add more revenues.

John Delaney

GrowthI AmCountryMoreSoundKids

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

John Cusack

GreatnessFamousBeing FamousUpHe

Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That's what I think good art does - it teaches you how to see the historical moment that you live in.

Trevor Paglen

GoodLiveArtMomentWorldThink

The longer khakis are owned and the more they are washed, the softer and more comfortable they become.

Roger Stone

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Racism has two primary functions: the oppression of people of color, which most people recognize, but also the simultaneous elevation of white people. You can't hold one group down without lifting the other up.

Robin DiAngelo

RacismPeopleColorYouWhiteDown

I have committed to giving away 80% of my wealth, much of it in India, but also in other countries.

Romesh Wadhwani

GivingWealthIndiaAwayCommitted

I just want to make sure that I give the animators everything they need, so they have plenty of choices to match their animation.

Mickey Rooney

ChoicesWantNeedAnimationSure

It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial.

Michael Moritz

BusinessTechnologySchoolPhysics

I remember auditioning for something where the woman was supposed to be 42, and I was 33 or something, and they were like, 'No women over 35 can audition.' That was in the breakdown. I don't think they would do that anymore - I would like to hope that they wouldn't put that in writing - but it's mind-boggling.

Miriam Shor

WomenHopeWomanWritingThinkOver

I didn't really come from money. So I wanted my thesis show to grab as much attention as possible.

Lucien Smith

MoneyAttentionPossibleShowCome

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

Lord Mountbatten

ConfidenceTeamDecisionsCaptain

There is so much going on in our country and in the world today... We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there? Well, I'm turned on by that kind of stuff.

Jonathan Demme

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