Jonathan Powell Quotes

Every time we meet a new terrorist group, we argue they are utterly different and we can learn nothing from the last time. Of course they are different, but some lessons on how we deal with them seem to apply in all cases. s

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• I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.

  

  Ed Case
  • Good
  • Country
  • Chance

• Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Life
  • Destiny
  • Regrets

• The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Today
  • Hero
  • Tomorrow

• I try to win every tournament.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Win
  • Try
  • Tournament

• In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Many
  • Did
  • Dictators

• Sarah Corvus in 'Bionic Woman' was one of my favorite characters I've ever played, ever, for reasons that are very similar to Nikki in 'Sexy Evil Genius.' I felt that that show was taken away from me too soon, and I really wanted to dive back into that mind frame again.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Mind
  • Taken
  • Evil

• I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • May
  • Walking

• You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Internet

• Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Government
  • Democracy

• So... Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be 'All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us'. We'll get to that.

  

  Larry Wall

• Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren’t interested in), people don’t speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • People
  • Thoughts

• If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.

  

  Bo Schembechler
  • Career
  • Failure

• I think Tunisia has a specific place in the Arab world and in Africa because it is a tiny Muslim country, but it's very open minded. It's the first country to start the Arab Spring, for example.

  

  Kenza Fourati
  • World
  • Country
  • Spring

• I was a very earthly, matronly, plus-size little girl with a pure heart.

  

  Paula Pell
  • Heart
  • Girl

• Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Death

• It's funny - almost every comedian that I started out with moved to L.A., except for my two friends Hannibal Buress and Amy Schumer. And my two friends that are doing the best in comedy, the most successful friends I have, are Hannibal Buress and Amy Schumer.

  

  Eric Andre
  • Friends
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Good
  • Devil
  • Wrestling

• The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

  

  Brittany Murphy

• I think my fans would probably be surprised to know I'm not insane - I'm not a crazy person in real life. I'm a pretty low-key dude. I like chilling at home and playing with my dog.

  

  Jerry Trainor
  • Life
  • Real
  • Home

• Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge.

  

  Elizabeth Bibesco
  • Breakfast

• I believe there is a gross misrepresentation in our culture. We're seeing people being indoctrinated to believe that Creationists can't be scientists. I believe it's all a part of secularists hijacking the word 'science'.

  

  Ken Ham
  • People
  • Believe
  • Science

• In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Different
  • Fear
  • Religion

• Even the mundane task may have something to teach you - especially if it's a task you haven't performed before.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • May

• Every time we meet a new terrorist group, we argue they are utterly different and we can learn nothing from the last time. Of course they are different, but some lessons on how we deal with them seem to apply in all cases. s

  

  Jonathan Powell
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