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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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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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
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Switzerland felt incredibly narrow, growing up. It was good, in a way. There were so many museums. But it was always a no-brainer that I would have to leave, and I'm grateful for that.
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The Special Ops community has always been about mental toughness.
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Shane looked faintly injured. “I make it my business to know everything about silver. And I saw your notes. I study up on everything when it comes to your boss, anyway.” There was a flicker of jealousy about that, but she didn’t have time, or energy, to consider it very much. Not even whether or not she liked it.
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If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.
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You don't say hello to Mr. DeNiro? Show the respect, will ya?
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The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys.
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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.
