Peter Bergen Quotes
Assad owes his continuation in power to the intervention of Russia in 2015 to prop up his regime.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.
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Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations.
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Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.
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The number one cause of unfulfilled potential is never deciding that NOW matters more than any other time in your life.
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Assad owes his continuation in power to the intervention of Russia in 2015 to prop up his regime.
