Leon Panetta Quotes

Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.

Leon Panetta

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• The sun never sets on my gallery.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Never
  • Sun
  • Gallery

• We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Animal
  • Rain

• It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Job
  • America
  • Military

• My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Before
  • Emancipation

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • American
  • History

• The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Mother
  • Speed
  • Limit

• 'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Black
  • Myself

• You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Music
  • Man

• I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Money
  • Success
  • Past

• All the money I have, I got it legally.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Money
  • Got
  • Legally

• We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Money
  • Age

• The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Place
  • Temple
  • Celestial

• Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent Californian.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • American
  • Proud

• Crowley wanted to be a magician because he wanted power - power over other people.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • People
  • Power

• In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Experience
  • Violence

• I love home, any home really - my mum's, and of course my own. I love eating food there and chilling in bed with a cup of tea.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Home
  • Food
  • Tea

• Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Great
  • Music
  • Long

• Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of reasons, but it feels good when people say 'four world titles.'

  

  Kurt Browning
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Power
  • Weakness
  • Horror

• I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

  

  Erica Jong
  • People
  • Trying
  • Marriage

• The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone's inventor: Alexander Graham Bell.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Music

• Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.

  

  Leon Panetta