John Negroponte Quotes
To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.John Negroponte
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
Rachel Nichols -
Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
Salma Hayek -
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
Fay Godwin -
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi -
This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
Kate Beckinsale -
I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
Mae West
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
Sacha Guitry -
It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
Abby Wambach -
I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
Bahman Ghobadi -
The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
Mandy Moore -
Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
Carly Fiorina -
Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
Rachael Taylor
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
Rand Paul -
I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
Dan Brown -
I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.
Felicity Jones -
I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.
Ian Hacking -
Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
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I always feel like I'm in the best shape of my life for every fight I'm in.
Celestino Caballero -
The night is beautiful, So are the faces of my people.
Langston Hughes -
People are stubborn about what they perceive to be the right thing or the wrong thing, and it takes a long time to filter this human condition. There's a waiting period until people catch up. But if you have patience - which it takes when someone thinks differently from you - everybody always catches up. That patience is a wonderful virtue.
Johnny Mathis -
Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.
Felix Frankfurter -
To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.
John Negroponte