"Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme."

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Source : "Richard Holbrooke: A Consummate Insider Who Left Us Wanting More" by Stephen Kinzer, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2010.

Richard Holbrooke

#Variation Quotes #Jazz Quotes #Endless Quotes

“When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.”
“Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.”
“The less government we have the better.”
“We've seen what violent regime change looks like in Libya and the kind of chaos that can be unleashed. And, indeed, the kind of misery that it enacts on its own people.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.”
“We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.”
“It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.”

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