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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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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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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My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.
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I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.
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Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' (748)
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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.
