Peter Beck Quotes (23 Quotes)

We look at interesting-looking people, quirky characters. We need to have a mix of a young hot things and mature, middle-aged serious, not so serious stars some big names, a couple of Bs (B-list stars) and some Cs, with personalities that complement the rest of the cast.

I think most of the world can live with that India is held to a double standard with North Korea.

I believe that this partnership with Gehry Technologies is a great step forward in our objective to bring innovative and real-world solutions to our industry. The ability to move out into the marketplace with a partner like Gehry Technologies is a value-added benefit and coupled with our solutions, we can allow the industry to benefit from our history of building technologies to address issues faced by owners, developers and strategic planners on a daily basis.

China currently holds the biggest potential carrot and stick with the North.

Washington is certainly concerned that Seoul's North Korean policy will lean further to the left.

The two parties agreed to disagree and papered over the differences. It will take a long time before North Korea will be accepted as a responsible member of the international community, at least 2 years.

It sounds cliched but we live in a tough world at the moment and to jump away for two hours and look at some lovely costumes, hear a great band play with some great singers, to watch two people connect on the floor is a nice way to forget about all this other stuff.

Given the limited policy options they have, they don't have much of an alternative to talking.

We believe that's going to significantly loosen up imports of Mexican cement, which I think will help not only with construction of hurricane-ravaged parts of the gulf, but also the South and Southeast both with supply and pricing.

The bottom line is, they are many years away from food self-sufficiency. If they push the public distribution too far, they could easily be looking at another famine.

When he went in 2001, it was almost exclusively military people. He was trying to convince them of the need for reform. Now, if he's bringing technocrats, he's trying to give examples of how reforms could take place.

The very nature of sweeping reforms would be inherently destabilizing to the regime. So it's more likely they would be halting reforms.

Thus, China is committed to the six-party nuclear talks as a means of keeping the lines of communication open and maintaining the status quo. Beijing is satisfied to play the role of convener and occasionally arbitrator, not dealmaker or enforcer. Achieving a nuclear accord is purely optional.

That's a non-negotiating point. It's demands like these that have me worried there may be a lack of progress in the peace process.

As time goes on, I am expecting, I am waiting for North Korea to act in a provocative manner, to lash out verbally, potentially even with a missile or even a nuclear test. Especially as Washington continues to try to squeeze them, and they are going to look for a way to get the world's attention by saying or doing something that is provocative.

Even though the crackdown on North Korea's illicit banking activities in Macau demonstrated that China is not completely immune to outside pressures to rein in bad behavior, Beijing is unlikely to shut down the North's remaining banking activities.

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Were (Kim's trip) purely for external consumption, there certainly would have been some photo ops. We have to assume that this was educational to learn how special economic zones function.

There's a new assertiveness in terms of dealing with the foreign aid community, ... That reflects a confidence that they can better manage their food situation.

For now, perhaps the only goal all parties can agree on is avoiding a crisis, but more meaningful engagement is needed if, in the long run, North Korea is not to loom as a flash point in Sino-U.S. relations.

The risk of this agreement is exactly what many hawks in Washington had warned about. You reduce the sense of urgency and let people grow comfortable with the status quo.

Any American who watches Korea in Washington will watch closely how it will unfold.

The problem is that Beijing places far greater priority on North Korean stability and regime survival than on the peninsula remaining nuclear-free.