Michael Scheuer Quotes
You just have to come to grips with the fact that people don't like to be invaded or bombed by anybody. And America has been engaged in that.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
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When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.
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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
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Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
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I feel like I'm changing pop culture.
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First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.
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The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.
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Innovating today is about creativity; it is about the freedom to act... if you look at the big conglomerate... it's highly regulated. It's a lot of talk about... internal controls and this and that... so there's a huge mindshift change to get the best of people.
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In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'
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You just have to come to grips with the fact that people don't like to be invaded or bombed by anybody. And America has been engaged in that.
