Peter Bergen Quotes
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
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For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I'm aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy.
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Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.
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The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.
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I climb mountains.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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There's a serious and worrying return to the fall of democracy in Spain, and it's not just us who are realising that.
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Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.
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The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.
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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
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We're paying a lot of attention to the iPad. But we're expanding that to a tablet focus.
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Let your customers be your partners; let your vendors be your employees. What's necessary in this transformation more than anything else is courage and a willingness to change.
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The parliament is the supreme decision-making and legislative body in any democracy. It reflects the collective desires of the citizens and makes laws.
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The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate.
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The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
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I was an Army intelligence agent and a veteran during the Cold War, assigned to West Germany. I was the chairman of the National Commission on Homeland Security and Terrorism for the United States for five years. I was a person who has dealt extensively with these homeland security issues. I was a governor during the 9/11 attack.
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Compounding Iraq's problem is that its economy is highly dependent on oil.
