John R. Allen Quotes
Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.

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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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I want to be an activist professor.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
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I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.
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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.
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I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.
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Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.
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There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had an easy ride. There was the whopping majority. There was the relief that the Tories were finally gone. There was the grand hyperbole.
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Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.