David E. Sanger Quotes
Back channels themselves are as old as American diplomacy. Thomas Jefferson was an early enthusiast - he often routed around his secretary of state, once sending a secret letter to the American envoy in France, Robert Livingston, that contained a coded message.

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You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you're done living. I'll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.
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As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
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I'm learning every day.
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I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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Trump's behavior is deeply disturbing but hardly surprising. His mercurial nature is not the product of a post-inaugural adder sting at Mar-a-Lago. It's been there all along. And the American electorate chose him nonetheless.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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Back channels themselves are as old as American diplomacy. Thomas Jefferson was an early enthusiast - he often routed around his secretary of state, once sending a secret letter to the American envoy in France, Robert Livingston, that contained a coded message.