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01 / belief
“I think, by the way — make a parenthesis here — that we’ll see some of the same dynamics in the case of India.”
02 / belief
“Yemeni food, I think, would be the most promising. There’s a couple of very good restaurants.”
03 / belief
“I think that’s a possibility, but a full-scale disintegration, I don’t think that can happen.”
04 / belief
“I think I say in the book that in order to be loved, you also have to be feared.”
05 / belief
“I don’t think Australia is top of the list, but I think there will be countries that will be essentially run from Beijing.”
06 / belief
“Again, I think is more and more highly rated, but I would encourage to rate him even higher.”
07 / belief
“Exactly. I think we’ll see a bit of that in the case of the tech community in China.”
08 / belief
“I think, and people there told me the same — people who have lived there for decades — that the big changes came 30 years ago.”
09 / commitment
“Literally, almost everything, but I will go with the masses and say that the best novel is A Bend in the River.”
10 / belief
“I think yes, it is a very promising idea to think that Hitchcock is thinking about the contradiction between liberalism and human nature, that they don’t quite fit well together.”
11 / observation
“If you look, actually, at the 10 poorest regions in the European Union, 5 are in the UK. So the problem is a bit more delicate than that.”
12 / belief
“Every American should read, certainly, Pessoa, who died less than a hundred years ago but, I think, deserves to be called a classic.”
13 / belief
“Tocqueville said that the United States and Russia had a lot in common. I think there’s a certain ability that both have to understand the other.”
14 / belief
“Now I think everyone agrees on this, even the Chinese authorities, which are openly talking about self-correcting and going in a slightly different path, which, if you know the Chinese regime, it’s a big deal when this is all out there in the open.”
15 / belief
“If Russia removes the guarantees that it’s offered to Armenia, then I think Azerbaijan is going to be in a very good position to try to recover that territory.”
16 / belief
“A very negative spirit, which I think is a good example of how adventure has disappeared from the European psyche.”
17 / belief
“While the institutions actually resemble more the US institutions than some European institutions that are in worse shape, I think we should be optimistic.”
18 / belief
“I think so. The Euro crisis shows that the adjustments could be done inside a year.”
19 / belief
“I would say Vertigo is the one where, by chance or effort, it’s very difficult to find a mistake of structure, of script, or acting, or casting, or anything really.”
20 / belief
“I think if universities could do that, those three years were the three years I learned the most in my life, just being forced to teach something where you are completely uncomfortable.”
21 / belief
“I think, until Putin goes, it will be very difficult to do the reforms that Russia needs.”
22 / evaluation
“I used to think, when I was reading Strauss at 18 or 20, that it was too fanciful.”
23 / evaluation
“The underlying flaw with Obama is always the same, is that he really took seriously this idea that history has a direction, that it’s going somewhere, to the point where, I think, at some point, he wasn’t even trying to change reality.”
24 / preference
“I’m sure I won’t miss any book that is about China — where China is going for example — and make a selection.”
25 / evaluation
“Also a problem, of course, for the EU because it becomes much more difficult to have ambitious plans and to do things if, inside the EU, you have a number of countries — which is growing by the day — that are in some kind of adversarial relationship with you.”
26 / uncertainty
“If you ask me why not, it is also — and I hope the listeners won’t be disappointed that I use this escape route too often — but it’s still a puzzle and a mystery to me.”
27 / preference
“Another writer that comes out of that spirit that I love and that was important for this book is Toynbee.”
28 / evaluation
“I could see that myself, but it really doesn’t matter because if you’re a foreigner, you’re [not] going to feel the brunt of it as much.”
29 / uncertainty
“I’m not even sure the word authoritarianism is a good one because it projects our experience into other parts of the world.”
30 / prediction
“On the one hand, I don’t see the same destructive impetus coming from Moscow in relation to Georgia as it is in relation to Ukraine, probably because Georgia also didn’t attempt to become an anti-Russian bulwark on the borders of Europe.”
31 / evaluation
“Adventure is fundamentally about being aware that there may be a completely different lifestyle that you’re not aware of, and they’re just passing you by because you’re not looking for it.”