John O. Brennan Quotes
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
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My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
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Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
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I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
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There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.
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I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
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Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
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There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.
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Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.
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Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.
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In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
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Chip is like that kid, like the five-year-old kid that's trying to make his mom breakfast, and there's milk everywhere.
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The men and women of the CIA are a national treasure.
