James Woolsey Quotes
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
Kamala Harris -
I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
Warren Buffett -
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Mao Zedong -
When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
Garrett Hedlund -
It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
Zoey Deutch -
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
Gary Sherman -
It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
Adam Grant -
The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.
Valerie Jarrett -
There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?
Idris Elba -
We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.
Kapil Sibal -
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard -
My mom and I are very close.
Lady Gaga -
I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
E. P. Thompson -
When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came, and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.
J. K. Simmons -
When I arrived in the U.S., I knew little English and didn't have any friends. The neighborhood and school kids were so welcoming. They made me feel at home very quickly.
Olga Fonda
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The study titled 'Impact of Immigration on Wages, by Education Level, 1994-2007' found that increased immigration had an effect of lowering wages for earlier immigrants by an average of 4.6 percent. Running counter to popular perception is the finding that for native-born Americans, wages actually increased by 0.6 percent.
Fabrizio Moreira -
With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.
Malcolm Gladwell -
To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.
Jon Oringer -
We need to move away from oil, period.
James Woolsey