John O. Brennan Quotes
Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.
Quotes to Explore
-
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
-
Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
-
When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
-
I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
-
I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
-
Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
-
I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
-
I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
-
For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
-
In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
-
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
-
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-
Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
-
You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
-
If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
-
As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
-
I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
-
I like the language in Proust but not the context.
-
'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.
-
The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
-
We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
-
I was a product of the relationships with my family, the environment I grew up in; all those things I kind of put on the back burner when I got into music, and my life all changed dramatically.
-
What I've learned, traveling the country and doing book signings, Mama's biscuits - you know, somebody in Montana's got their version of Mama's biscuits, somebody in California's got their version - so it made me realize that we're not as regionalized as we think we are.
-
Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.
