John Bruton Quotes
The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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The mind must first reflect upon itself in order that it may frame a rule of Justice, and not be inclined to do to another what it would not have done to itself, nor refuse to another what it desires for itself. These two assuredly comprise the whole sphere of Justice.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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When you come to San Francisco, we want you to know where Salesforce is.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.
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My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.
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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
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I never have more than one bag at a time. I think one is already quite enough. Also, I hate changing bags, so I never have the thing of having ten bags. Any bag that's with me will take the same course as I will. It will take the same airplanes and will be squashed in the same way and will be used as a cushion in the airports.
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But our leaders of today have decided it's more important to be popular, to say and do what's easy, and say yes rather than to say no, when no is what is required.
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I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has.
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Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.
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I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.
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The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.
