Peter Bergen Quotes

9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are kind of filtered through that lens.

Peter Bergen

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• I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Body
  • Dress

• IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Friends
  • Interesting
  • Problem

• God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Nature
  • Thoughts

• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Play
  • Win

• I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Real
  • True

• I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Work
  • Music
  • Real

• An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Job
  • Man
  • Government

• Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Money
  • Help
  • Strong

• I need to meet people to be able to write.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • People
  • Need
  • Meet

• 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.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Opportunity
  • Romantic
  • Scary

• Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Greatest

• My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Name

• There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.

  

  Ian Millar
  • She
  • Remember
  • Wife

• It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Down
  • Entrepreneur
  • Finding

• I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Great
  • Country
  • Stand

• To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Poetry
  • Occupation
  • Siege

• So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Money
  • Want
  • Well

• I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Struggling

• Running water never grows stale. So you just have to 'keep on flowing.'

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Running
  • Water

• During the couple of years it took to write 'At The Bottom of Everything', I decided, on the sort of hopeful whim that occasionally overtakes me, to sign up for piano lessons.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • Up
  • Couple

• I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• Despite all these obstacles and bad security situation, I have the energy and the resolve to train, but my head is full of ideas and it distracts me, and I need to focus.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • Bad
  • Energy
  • Focus

• 9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are kind of filtered through that lens.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • American
  • History