John Negroponte Quotes
To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.
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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.
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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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.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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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.'
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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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.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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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.
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Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.” It was “illegal” to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If todayI lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws.
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I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.
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Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.
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To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.
