Ian Bremmer Quotes

I don't want to die with regrets. I like living and experiencing and feeling the whole lot.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.

You have one life, and it can't be just about work because you lose out on so many amazing years of your life if you just work, work, and work.

It seems like almost every day I've been able to cross things off my bucket list.

I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?

I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

I was 36 when I got married. I was so focused on, 'You wanted a husband, and you wanted a house, and you wanted children.' I've had all those things now.

We try to stick pretty close to what our goals are and what we believe and what we enjoy doing in life - just simple things.

I need to live a long time to fulfil all the things I want to do.

I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted.

I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.

It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal.

If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.

I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction.

When you hit 30, it's that time of self-reflection. Some people are a success. Some people feel like they haven't achieved what they wanted to. Some people are married, some have kids, some are still single.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

I'm going to take full advantage of whatever time I've got on this earth. I'm going to get my money's worth. You can bet your butt on that.

I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.

I will not have died unfulfilled if it does not occur in my lifetime.

I don't have regrets. I've never sat here and thought, 'Gee, if only I'd done 'The Man Who Came to Dinner' on Broadway, I would have been happier.'

I really don't want the highlight of my life to be my success as an investor. Genuinely. My idea of death would be that person who is still telling you about that goal he scored in 1974.