Kirstjen Nielsen Quotes
I worked at the crossroads of policy and operations. I kind of bring all that experience together because homeland security is a team sport, and I've played almost every role, every player, every team.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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I never felt that although we were based in Germany, Puma was and should be considered as a German brand. So we restructured it in a way that positioned us as a global brand, with English being the corporate language, rather than us looking at it from a German perspective.
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In Evita I wasn't really hugely involved with it. I gave a little bit of help but they needed a bit of technical help on the movie and so some of my music people went in at the end of the movie and helped out with it.
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
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But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan. Overnight I became a good player. I suppose it had something to do with confidence. I mean, I'd always been the lowest Indian on the reservation totem pole - I wasn't expected to be good so I wasn't. But in Reardan, my coach and the other players wanted me to be good. They needed me to be good. They expected me to be good. And so I became good. I wanted to live up to the expectations. I guess that's what it comes down to. The power of expectations. And as they expected more of me, I expected more of myself, and it just grew and grew.
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I worked at the crossroads of policy and operations. I kind of bring all that experience together because homeland security is a team sport, and I've played almost every role, every player, every team.
