John O. Brennan Quotes

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

John O. Brennan

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• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Life
  • Women
  • Peace

• When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Live
  • Movie
  • Action

• 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.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Focus
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Work
  • Great
  • Israel

• 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.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Time
  • Father
  • Dad

• 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.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Interesting

• Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Yourself
  • Motivational

• It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Music
  • Wisdom
  • Audience

• Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Good
  • Water
  • Morning

• 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.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Television

• As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Look

• I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Always
  • Childhood
  • Normal

• I like the language in Proust but not the context.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Language
  • Context

• 'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Struggle
  • End
  • In The End

• It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Boat
  • Take
  • Champagne

• I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Job
  • Power

• Lifting weights is obviously important, because you want to be strong and fast and all of that, but it's not one of those things you gotta go and try to bench as much as you can every day. A bench press isn't going to help you throw a 15-yard out or a deep comeback. It's not about that. It's about training right.

  

  Mark Sanchez
  • Important
  • Help
  • Strong

• 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Writing
  • Morning
  • Sunday

• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • War