Brian McGinn Quotes
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats.
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I don't really think, I just walk.
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No foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland.
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I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
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It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.
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It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.
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I wake up every morning at, like, seven or eight because I think that there's a bad story about me, and I have to check. My worst fear is waking up and finding something bad about me on the Internet.
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It might not be pretty, but the A-10 is our most capable close air-support aircraft, and its arrival on the battlefield signals survival for our troops and annihilation for our enemies.
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Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
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The images of mankind have become the most basic thing about them. And they're all software, and disembodied. (p. 346)
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It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.
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The idea of celebrity is becoming more and more appealing to people.
