Ali Soufan Quotes
Sixteen years after 9/11, we still don't even know what to call the enemy, rather than form a comprehensive strategy.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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Those who go along get along.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
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I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.
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One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.
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All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.
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Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.
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As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
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Some believe that the FBI has these phenomenal capabilities to access any information at any time - that we can get what we want, when we want it, by flipping some sort of switch. It may be true in the movies or on TV. It is simply not the case in real life.
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I worked for a temp agency called Manpower.
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Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.
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I started doing yoga.
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Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.
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Even though my work life is very intense, I make a conscious effort to be healthy.
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One valuable lesson I learned is that buying cheap is very important. Buying without debt is also very important. Leverage is your enemy.
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It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the 'cooler,' and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.
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My twin in the show is Molly Stanton who is so sweet and great and she is totally different from me.
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I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.
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Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
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Sixteen years after 9/11, we still don't even know what to call the enemy, rather than form a comprehensive strategy.
