Leon Panetta Quotes
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Setting a tone of inclusiveness and ensuring protection for all begins at the top, whether from the White House or the State House.
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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
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I built Kosovo for 10 years.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
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My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
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It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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I stopped doing standup because it stopped being fun. And the reason it stopped being fun was it was harder to write - and this was before the Internet - it was harder to write new stuff. It had gotten so crazy.
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The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.
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I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
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But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.
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Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.
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Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.
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There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.
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The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella--and was necessary to it.
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Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
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Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.
