Leon Panetta Quotes
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Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
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The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.
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Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.
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If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.
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Who you know, 10 albums later, get better than he's ever been before? It's hard. To come from all this huge success like a 'What's Love,' and a 'Lean Back,' then take it back to the street with 'The Darkside.'
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No damn man kills me and lives.
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Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was one of the worst boxing matches I've ever seen, but millions of people watched it because of the personalities involved.
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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Two powerful people can't be friends.
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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
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I can't believe that I was one of those people who said 'I'm not really a sci-fi fan.'
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I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
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Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.
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If the North Korean Communists provoke another war, we must immediately deter it and give them a decisive counterattack at the initial place of aggression.
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It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'
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I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia.
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When you look at the history of wars, they ultimately revolve around one claim: "My god is better than yours."
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Otherness is what I have always liked about bugs.
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I don't engage in hypotheticals.
