Peter Bergen Quotes
Typically, terrorist attacks produce a rally-around-the flag effect as was the case after 9/11 and the huge outpouring of public support that then-President George W. Bush garnered.
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It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?
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Any street cop knows you will be sued or involved in some type of litigation throughout your career.
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Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
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If you're gifted enough, nappy hair, gap teeth, acne face - I don't care what it is, greatness will shine through anything!
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Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.
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Typically, terrorist attacks produce a rally-around-the flag effect as was the case after 9/11 and the huge outpouring of public support that then-President George W. Bush garnered.
