Bob Riley Quotes
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The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.
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When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
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I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.
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I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.
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They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
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I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.
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When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.
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The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.
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With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.
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The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
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'On demand' is more than just a series of clicks on your still-too-complicated remote control. In fact, it is now the best way to describe what the cable industry - from programmers to content makers to distributors - imagine their world is. Services and content available to very demanding consumers, wherever, whenever, however.
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I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.
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I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
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I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
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Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.
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We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president.
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A decision to proceed with the restricted transfer notice will be made when the outcome of the market stand is known and the terms have been determined.
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Playing for India has been an honour and I want to continue doing that. I don't know anything else to do other than cricket. I want to play as long as I can,
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For a workout, I love to hike or take a long walk. Being outside is crucial; I can't stand gyms.
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I went to Northampton College of Further Education. I left there - when I was 16, I left Kingsthorpe Upper - and I went and did a diploma in performing arts, so it was my start in the training process to becoming an actor.
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I'd spent seven years in an all-boys school: 2,000 adolescents in the same khaki uniforms striking hunting poses, stalking lunchrooms, classrooms, changing rooms, looking for boys who didn't fit in.
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We've got to take care of the poor.
