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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Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?
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Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.
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A world view is probably an expression of self.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.
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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.
