George Tenet Quotes
One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend.
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.
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I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.
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The more gunk I have on my face, the less free I feel.
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The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
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When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.
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One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
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The less life in a person, the more he will try to live off your life.
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They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.
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You never told me he was that fucking good.
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When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it. If I see a chair in a beautiful space, no matter how beautiful the chair is, it can never be as beautiful to me as the plain space.
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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.
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I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.
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Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.
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I like three-dimensional characters - it's just more interesting when you get on set.
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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.
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One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend.
