John Chilcot Quotes
The judgements about the severity of the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of a mass destruction - WMD - were presented with a certainty that was not justified.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
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Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.
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The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
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In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
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My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.
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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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I think a woman feels ugly when she's got the wrong man at her side.
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Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.
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I don't think there's ever been a team that ever scored more layups than that Blazers team.
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It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
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There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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Batting coaches are just as important as pitching coaches. Lefty O'Doul gave me good advice when he said: 'Don't ever let them change you.' I also asked for help from Cobb, Foxx and Hornsby.
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The more a man is trained to 'be a man,' the more he is trained to protect women and children, not hurt women and children. He is trained to volunteer to die before even a stranger is hurt – especially a woman or child.
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Most kinds of aggressive behavior among members of the same species are responsive to crowding in the environment.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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P. 27.
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Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?
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A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.
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One thing to remember is to talk to the animals. If you do, they will talk back to you. But if you don't talk to the animals, they won't talk back to you, then you won't understand, and when you don't understand you will fear, and when you fear you will destroy the animals, and if you destroy the animals, you will destroy yourself.
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The judgements about the severity of the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of a mass destruction - WMD - were presented with a certainty that was not justified.
