John O. Brennan Quotes
Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world - leadership defined, not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose, but by the security, opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
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I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.
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I don't understand what the president's Donald Trump position is on Russia. But I can tell you what my position is on Russia: Russia is a great danger to a lot of its neighbors, and Vladimir Putin has as one of his core objectives fracturing NATO, which is one of the greatest military alliances in the history of the world.
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I always whip up chicken cutlets or something. Or I make chicken parm and pasta, or something like that.
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I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.
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People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.
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Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world - leadership defined, not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose, but by the security, opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world.
