John T. Chambers Quotes
Once you put in backdoors, once you allow a government to intercept anything they want, you have to give it to other governments around the world. Once you do that, there is no privacy; there is no security. There is no protection for democracy.
 
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	I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.   
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	Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.   
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	I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.   
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	My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.   
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	The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.   
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	One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.   
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	Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.   
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	All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.   
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	One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.   
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	A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.   
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	I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.   
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	You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.   
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	As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.   
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	The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.   
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	By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.   
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	New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?   
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	I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.   
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	I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.   
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	I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.   
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	Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.   
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	A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.   
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	Kissing onscreen is the worst thing in the world. I'm OK with lovemaking scenes, but I hate kissing.   
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	I love Wales, and Cardiff is great, but if I could just have the weather we have in California, it would be perfect.   
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	Once you put in backdoors, once you allow a government to intercept anything they want, you have to give it to other governments around the world. Once you do that, there is no privacy; there is no security. There is no protection for democracy.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					