John Negroponte Quotes
We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.
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I grew up on films.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
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My heart/ is whatever temperature a heart is/ in a man who doesn't believe in heaven.
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Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that.
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I think the American legal system sucks worse than a Celine Dion cover version of 'Whole Lotta Love.'
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We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.
