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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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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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 encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.
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Worst of all was the blizzard. People from the east or west coasts of America may think they have seen a blizzard. Likely they have not. It is almost exclusively a phenomenon of the plains, and got its name on the plains. It entailed wind-driven snow so dense and temperatures so cold that anyone lost in them on the shelterless plains was as good as dead.
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America was the one territory where they didn't release 'Nights In White Satin' at the time it was made. It was about three or four months later, after 'Tuesday Afternoon,' so I think we have a special fondness for it.
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There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different.
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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.
