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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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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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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It feels like I'm in a swimming pool, and I am constantly trying to stay above water. Sometimes I feel like I'm slipping, and you try to come up for air, and that's how it is when looking for the next role.
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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.
