Michael Chertoff Quotes
Even the kinds of ingredients you can find in your own kitchen can be used to make bombs. So the problem is with the people and not with the tools.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!
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LeBron James needs to go to another team with two superstars already so he can win a championship.
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People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.
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The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.
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I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
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First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.
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Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.
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If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like, 'Are you a unicorn?'
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I wish that I could tell you that I have a season ski pass, but I have had to give that up since I've been in the Senate.
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I never chose money, I always chose people. I wanted to be around people who knew more than I did. I think that’s why I never fell in love with an actor. They never seemed to know any more than I did. I wanted to be with writers… My idea of a dream man was Thornton Wilder.
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I thought that if acting didn't work out, I'd have done law school or medical school: probably law to be honest.
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Even in the United States and in other free nations, some journalists, academics, public officials, and saddest of all young people have developed and promulgated idealized, warped views of tyrannical regimes.
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Even the kinds of ingredients you can find in your own kitchen can be used to make bombs. So the problem is with the people and not with the tools.
