Peter Bergen Quotes

It is in American and Afghan interests for the U.S. to stay in Afghanistan so it doesn't turn into Iraq circa 2014, with the Taliban controlling much of the country while hosting a strong presence of ISIS and al-Qaeda as well as every other jihadist group of note.

Peter Bergen

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• Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

  

  Randolph Bourne
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• If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• I don't think what I look like is relevant.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• I bumped into my cousin after she'd shaved her hair very short, and she looked incredible. She seemed so effortless and cool, and I wanted that. And, I've had it like that ever since.

  

  Laura Mvula
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• Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

  

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• My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

  

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• Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
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• In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • You
  • Rude

• I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
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• I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Idea
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• When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
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• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
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• I like to be real. I don't like things to be staged or fussy.

  

  Alice Temperley
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• Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

  

  Comte de Lautreamont
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• In a country which lacks so many things, people want to look up to an idol. They want to feel this is their hero. In exactly the same way, as they would want a whipping horse, to put all the blame.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
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• We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I have come to regard statistics with doubt and merely as a hint of the probable shape of fact.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
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  • Doubt
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• It is in American and Afghan interests for the U.S. to stay in Afghanistan so it doesn't turn into Iraq circa 2014, with the Taliban controlling much of the country while hosting a strong presence of ISIS and al-Qaeda as well as every other jihadist group of note.

  

  Peter Bergen
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  • American
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