Peter Bergen Quotes
Ground operations are inherently very risky in Yemen. The two previous JSOC raids in Yemen were both in 2014.
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.
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I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.
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Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.
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I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
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Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.
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Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.
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Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
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Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.
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Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.
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The Supreme Court, once in existence, cannot be abolished, because its foundation is not in an act of the legislative department of the Government, but in the Constitution of the United States.
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You know, there’s one thing about you that always astonishes me. The longer you talk, the wronger you get.
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Within one of her.
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No! The other thing, that God brought us together for a reason.
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Not many foreigners move to Paris for their dream job. Many do it on a romantic whim.
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I often say, if I wasn't part of the show I'd be a huge fan of it.
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Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially.
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Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs.
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The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.
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Ground operations are inherently very risky in Yemen. The two previous JSOC raids in Yemen were both in 2014.
