"Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power."

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Source : "Seven questions for Walter Russell Mead". The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. January 16, 2010.

Walter Russell Mead

#Years Quotes #America Quotes #People Quotes

“I put together an iPhone app called TrimIt and released that in July 2011. About a month later, the private fund of the Hong Kong billionaire Li-Kashing cold emailed me and expressed an interest to invest, but they didn't realize I was 15. They thought it was a U.K. company with a team.”
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.”
“I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.”
“I enjoy entering the viewpoint of characters who are as different from myself as I can get - children, elderly women, animals, a sexy death row murderess - and to imagine how these disparate individuals see the world's cruelty and beauty and vastness.”

Source : "Go Forth (Vol. 15)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, believermagblog.wordpress.com. September 10, 2013.
“Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been”
“The FDA is now warning people not to eat raw cookie dough this holiday season. Is that how fat we're getting in this country? Our ovens are too slow now?”
“How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse.”

Source : Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.83, Macmillan

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