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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I find it a sufficient embarrassment that our Establishment Clause jurisprudence regarding holiday displays has come to 'requiree scrutiny more commonly associated with interior decorators than with the judiciary'. But interior decorating is a rock hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
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Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.
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So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.
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Distrust that man who tells you to distrust.
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I mean, it's so normal for everybody to have a huge ego, it's great. It's great. Otherwise, everybody would act like Bono, you know, really big.
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The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.
