Leon Panetta Quotes
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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
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You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
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If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone,' then you only impact the few and not the many.
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I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.
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I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't require reporting. You can write criticism at home in your underwear. On the other hand, journalism takes legwork - you have to get out there and see things and talk to people.
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With the Israel stories, it was for me the most surprising way the title would fit in. I kept thinking about, for a lot of my Israeli characters, what it was like to inherit such a complicated and symbiotic relationship to America and to feel how tangled that is, and it's nothing that they chose to do themselves.
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I'll always be Number 1 to myself.
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An ethic to supplement and guide the economic relation to land presupposes the existence of some mental image of land as a biotic mechanism.
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The teams and how we perform and how we deal with customers, how we invest in the things we do right now - that's what writes the story for GE.
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The Taliban is resilient.
