John O. Brennan Quotes
You know, President Obama feels very strongly that the government has a responsibility to engage with the American people, as well as with the world community.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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Being on a successful show is kind of like being a sea turtle. Every year, sea turtles lay hundreds and hundreds of eggs, but only a few manage to survive and mature. It's the same with TV pilots. There are so many great ideas, but for whatever reason only the lucky ones get picked up.
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Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.
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We'd rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn't.
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Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
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You know, President Obama feels very strongly that the government has a responsibility to engage with the American people, as well as with the world community.
