Benjamin Wittes Quotes
There is nothing normal about removing the FBI director, as a general matter. It's an extraordinary measure. This is an office that is typically served for a term of years, 10 years, to be precise.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.
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I love the hip-hop nation.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.
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Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
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The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.
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The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a deluge, not of water but of sins, continually inundates the earth, and out of this deluge very few escape. Scarcely anyone is saved.
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Chicks cannot hold their smoke, dat's what it is.
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We are the people our parents warned us about.
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I don't apologize for being sexually adventurous. Why not? It was often fun. When it wasn't - I didn't continue what wasn't pleasant.
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Raw I'mma give it to ya, with no trivia.
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I'm working with wind, solar, and biofuels companies as well as with organizations like ACORE [American Council On Renewable Energy], Growth Energy, and AREDAY to raise public awareness and seek practical technological solutions to reduce our reliance on fossilized carbon. My book Don't Wait for the Next War will be out in October, where I will offer my prescription for America's growth, responsible development, and security.
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There's an answer, if you reach into your soul, and the sorrow that you know will melt away.
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No one else can tell you what your life's work is, but it's important that you find it. There is a part of you that knows - affirm that part.
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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
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There is nothing normal about removing the FBI director, as a general matter. It's an extraordinary measure. This is an office that is typically served for a term of years, 10 years, to be precise.
