George Tenet Quotes
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
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I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.
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It's always fun to agree to be in a movie when you have no idea what it's actually going to be!
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I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
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I have a very positive outlook.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
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For a large number of problems there will be some animal of choice or a few such animals on which it can be most conveniently studied.
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Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
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There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
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Roger Goodell is doing his job. He's front office. Whatever he says goes, and I'll leave it at that.
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I'm really into gardening.
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A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.
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You can't give up. If you set yourself a target, you've got to keep on until you achieve it. It's a matter of having pride in yourself.
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Some secrets are meant to be taken to the grave, and that's what I plan on doing with all mine. They're not necessarily my secrets to tell. I'm the gatekeeper of other people's secrets.
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I did sound for a number of years, so I know the pain of the sound mixer on a set where everybody was talking.
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I'm often uncertain of what's expected of a movie.
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Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
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The thing I always guard against when I'm talking to people I'm working with about a script is that there's a thing I don't like and it's called "talk story." It's when you're talking about the story; the characters are tasked with talking about the story instead of allowing the audience to experience the story.
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We don't torture people. Let me say that again to you. We don't torture people, OK.
