John Chilcot Quotes
We do not agree that hindsight is required. The risks of internal strife in Iraq, active Iranian pursuit of its interests, regional instability, and al-Qaeda activity in Iraq, were each explicitly identified before the invasion.
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
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I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
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In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.
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Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.
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If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked.
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All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
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If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.
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For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.
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I don't watch much television.
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It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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If we must die, O let us nobly die,So that our precious blood may not be shedIn vain; then even the monsters we defyShall be constrained to honor us though dead!
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And to me it seems that you have fallen asleep upon a white rock, and in a parish of dreams, and have dreamt all this in a moment while it was night.
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I arrived in Bangkok in 1980: I was 23 years old, and it changed my life.
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They want to create rather than decimate.
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If you want to fight against a declining trend, you've got to have a much bigger bazooka.
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No one promised life would be easy or that the game wouldn't change without warning. There you are, all ready to pass Go and collect two hundred dollars, and suddenly Colonel Mustard is trapped in the conservatory, ranting and raving and waving a wrench, and no one knows what exactly a conservatory is or why anyone thought a wrench - of all things - would be a good murder weapon, or what branch of the military Colonel Mustard even served in! Has anyone seen his credentials?
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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
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We do not agree that hindsight is required. The risks of internal strife in Iraq, active Iranian pursuit of its interests, regional instability, and al-Qaeda activity in Iraq, were each explicitly identified before the invasion.
