#rei

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer. ↗

— Marilyn Horne

#composer #even #foreign #language #limited

I've never talked to our guys about being young. That's an easy crutch to fall on. You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they've done and reinforce their work. ↗

— Scott Brooks

#being #build #come #crutch #done

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do. ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#best #big #devil #foreign #hairy

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments. ↗

— Tina Brown

#bush #creates #just #makes #mistake

The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#foreign policy #job #know #learn #needs

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#carry #certain #characters #faces #may

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits. ↗

— John Bruton

#european #foreign #global #half #market

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#defines #democracy #does #extremist #first

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#close #closest #closest friend #death #died

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning. ↗

— Diahann Carroll

#difficult #difficult thing #distance #holding #how