Peter Bergen Quotes
In 2016, Washington and its coalition partners conducted more than 7,000 strikes in Iraq and Syria. And in Libya, the United States has conducted more than 350 air strikes since August as part of its military campaign against ISIS there.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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I have a Lamborghini Diablo. I have Mercedes 600, a 500, a 300, a 190. I have a Ferrari Testarossa, a Porsche speedster.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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I am a Zionist.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I love baseball, and the door remains open.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Embrace your weirdness!
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
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Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.
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My life has changed, but I'm not money-motivated at all; that's the last thing on my mind. I just want to play football, and that's how I've always been.
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My biggest fear in the world is going broke and having to depend on someone else again.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness
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In 2016, Washington and its coalition partners conducted more than 7,000 strikes in Iraq and Syria. And in Libya, the United States has conducted more than 350 air strikes since August as part of its military campaign against ISIS there.
