John O. Brennan Quotes
The president's priority is to protect the safety and security of the American people. That's the physical security of the American people as well as the prosperity of the American people.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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I don't like attacking.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.
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I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it sound as though I was 'dumbing down' to the character. They are able to see events, people and places with an intensity and open mindedness that adults lack.
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Why would I get a wild card into an American tournament, (as the) top-ranked American? Why would that happen? That makes too much sense. Maybe I should play more Davis Cup, that's the story. Oh wait, I do.
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I think the draw quotient has always been high in world championship matches because the amount of effort people put into neutralizing each other's openings. It's just now with computers that it has reached a new level.
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The president's priority is to protect the safety and security of the American people. That's the physical security of the American people as well as the prosperity of the American people.
