John O. Brennan Quotes
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting.
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I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.
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I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.
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I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!
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I'm pretty obsessed with 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey.' I usually watch it on the bus after a show with my husband Jimi. As much as he will deny it, he loves the show as much as I do.
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Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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I think that mind-sets are changing in the Middle East. Poll after poll is showing that men see the value of greater female participation and empowerment. We still have a long way to go, but Islam should not be used as a scapegoat. The obstacles that face women today are more cultural. It's not about the religion.
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'What is the secret of your serenity? Said the Master 'Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.'
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I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.
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I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?
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FEMA? I always thought it was a bone here in your ass.
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It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.
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My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks.
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Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill.
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I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.
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I love the element of surprise, throwing people off of what they think they know about what I can do and who I am. I just want to keep doing that.
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In England you have a good phrase. It is 'to bring the game into disrepute.
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How you define a problem shapes how you address it.
