Peter Bergen Quotes
Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS during his attack, the worst terror attack on American soil since 9/11.Peter Bergen
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
Baltasar Kormakur -
I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
Abigail Washburn -
I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.
Dane Cook -
At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
Ted Rall -
The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
Adam DeVine -
I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
Nancy Sinatra
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.
Rachel Kushner -
The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
Nancy Pearcey -
I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
Lance Reddick -
Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
Yanis Varoufakis -
The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.
Bashar al-Assad -
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.
Edmund Morgan -
By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
A. Scott Berg -
First off, I could never become a doctor. Blood? Even the fake blood on 'American Horror Story,' I'm kind of ready to hurl.
Taissa Farmiga -
What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.
Vicente Fox
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Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.
Mark McKinnon -
If you're in college, if you're in high school, if you're in elementary school, if you're in a youth league, if you're in the NFL, football's football.
DeAngelo Williams -
Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
Jacob Bronowski -
I work my butt off to stay in shape, especially after having had a baby.
Poppy Montgomery -
Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS during his attack, the worst terror attack on American soil since 9/11.
Peter Bergen