Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes
The terrorists exist, and I think we must speak to them, not to establish a dialogue-since for serious terrorists that is unfortunately out of the question - but to learn how their brains work, to be better able to fight them.
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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I think I can help others just by my example.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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I'm proud to be part of the resistance.
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It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.
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Most of the boys would come with bits of equipment that their fathers had given them from their war days - helmets, canteens, binoculars, these kinds of things - that leant a kind of authenticity to the games we were playing. But, of course, my father never gave me anything. So I began to question him. You know, Why don't you have anything from the war? And I think he was...embarrassed to tell me he hadn't fought, because, you know, little boys want to turn their fathers into heroes, and he didn't want to be diminished in my eyes.
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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
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Prayer is your personal key to heaven.
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The terrorists exist, and I think we must speak to them, not to establish a dialogue-since for serious terrorists that is unfortunately out of the question - but to learn how their brains work, to be better able to fight them.
