John O. Brennan Quotes
I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.
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The physician's duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face - and make sense of - their own existence.
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A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
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When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.
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I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.
