Michael Chertoff Quotes
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.
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I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
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I've been really fortunate to go from series to series to series.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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My favorite color is light pink. I also like baby blue because it brings out my eyes.
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Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.
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Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised.
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Koizumi was not rooted in Japan's rightwing nationalist tradition: he was a pragmatist and a populist. Abe, in contrast, is a rightwing nationalist. Unlike Koizumi, for example, he has questioned the validity of the postwar Tokyo trials of Japan's wartime leaders, which found many of them guilty of war crimes.
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
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It didn't really change my opinion about [Edward] Snowden all that much, but I definitely feel like as a culture, it gave us information that generated a responsibility to protect ourselves as much as we can and also a responsibility to hold our government accountable to honoring our constitutional rights.
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There really is no vacation from the world in which we live.
