"Nixon tried to wrap the Soviet Union into a web of agreements that would constrain its behavior. What happened is that many people lost faith in that approach, not the least because of how the Soviets handled it."

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Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

David Hoffman

#Agreement Quotes #People Quotes #Unions Quotes

“What does one have to do today to reconcile France? Distribute public money - that's what some expect, especially the radical left. They think that you help people by handing them money. But that is a fallacy because it is not me distributing the money, but rather future generations.”
“I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyers mentality.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Producer Nina Jacobson Talks The Hunger Games: Catching Fire". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 19, 2013.
“Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence.”
“It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.”

Source : "Islam versus the West". Interview with Amanda Griscom-Little, www.rollingstone.com. August 7, 2003.
“Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.”
“Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like Im sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But its not supposed to be that way.”
“With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.”

Source : René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.27, Rutgers University Press
“Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.”

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