Peter Bergen Quotes

The Russians have been waging wars with these separatists since the 19th century, but for obvious reasons, Chechen separatist terrorism tends to be carried out by Chechens.

Peter Bergen

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• Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Right
  • Spring
  • Determination

• I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • People
  • Good
  • Words

• Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • History
  • You
  • Medical

• In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • May
  • Truth
  • True

• It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Pretty
  • Success
  • Going

• We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Years
  • Cutting
  • Traditional

• You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Family
  • Rock

• We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Progress
  • Discrimination

• I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Church
  • Religious
  • Sunday

• I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Important
  • May
  • Lost

• I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Beautiful
  • Myself
  • Role

• You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Audience
  • Laugh
  • Release

• The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

  

  Garth Hudson
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Winner

• We know the fans love us to death, and the people that hear out music love our music.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Music
  • Death

• Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.

  

  Larry David
  • You
  • Doing
  • Last

• In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Trying
  • Years
  • Ghetto

• I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Start
  • Old
  • Determined

• Bahrain is very dear to me.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Me
  • Very
  • Dear

• Fear is always a good motivator.

  

  James Dyson
  • Good
  • Fear

• When I'm making a movie, I never watch the dailies. I see the movie once and that's it. It's really not about that for me. It's not about the externals. When I'm on a set, I don't want to see it. I want to be subjective in it. That's my habit now.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Movie
  • Habit
  • External

• I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Live
  • Past
  • Earth

• My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last minute before the gospel reading, take Communion, and walk right out again.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Reading

• I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.

  

  Jeffrey Jones
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Nature

• The Russians have been waging wars with these separatists since the 19th century, but for obvious reasons, Chechen separatist terrorism tends to be carried out by Chechens.

  

  Peter Bergen