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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Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
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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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I use egg whites and an olive oil-based hair mask that deep-conditions the hair and adds incredible shine.
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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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Las pequeñeces son lo eterno, y lo demás. todo lo demás, lo breve, lo muy breve
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I believe that my experience as an HBO executive responsible for global marketing and communications should serve our country well as we tell America's story in Spain and Andorra.
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A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.
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I love entering the bowels of the cinema and immersing myself in another world.
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There really is no vacation from the world in which we live.
