John O. Brennan Quotes
We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?
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I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
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Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.
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The greatest gift I've been given is being naive, because I don't know what I can't do. And when you don't know what you can't do, you think you can do everything.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
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We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.
