"And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well."

-- Peter Ustinov

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“One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, drawing the sharp distinctions. But in real life, what works is networks and cooperation. And we need victories in real life, so we've got to get back to networks and cooperation, not just conflict. But politics has always been about conflict, and in the coverage of politics, information dissemination tends to be organized around conflict as well.”
“I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.”
“I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.”
“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”
“Long-distance runners have to be very strange people. You have to really want to do it. You don't have to win or beat someone, you just have to get through the thing. That's the sense of victory. The sense of self-worth.”
“What if you could find brand new worlds, right here on Earth, where anything is possible? Same planet, different dimension. I've found the gateway.”
“I got wrecked by a dirty driver. There's no other way of putting it. He's cool with that. I have raced him really cool over the last year to be respectful to him and try to repair our relationship. It is not going to last, I can tell you that. Now weâ€™ve got war.”
“We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a ***** thing about doing a show.”

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