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.

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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
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  • 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'm very ADD when it comes to working out. I have to keep it interesting for myself or it just gets quite monotonous.

  

  LeAnn Rimes
  • Interesting

• There are so many times in life when you have to suppress what you're feeling. A lot of kids have to deal with that in a school environment: You're not allowed to be happy, sad, depressed, over the moon. Being an actor not only do I get to play an angsty teen, but I get the support that I need to be Yara.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Life
  • School
  • Kids

• I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • American
  • Church

• In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • School
  • History
  • High

• If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Might
  • Blonde
  • Dancer

• 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