Leon Panetta Quotes
You know, one thing I've learned over 40 years is that when you have jobs in Washington, you do it day by day and that's what I'm doing as secretary of defense.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.
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Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.
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I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.
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Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
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Up to his twenty-sixth year, the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.
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The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.
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I'm very articulate when I wanna be. You wanna talk to me?
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We'll be sending a print to the MPAA, we say nothing about it and hope they sleep through the movie.
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Sorry, I’m not at home. I have gone out to my world Fancy, and I cannot be reached. Call back in a week, unless your business is urgent, in which case call back in a month.
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And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to.
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Airbrushing has sold such a false idea of what a body looks like to the point where people can't tell what's real and what's fake.
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In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.
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When you play so many outcasts and derelicts, or even a murderer, you need to play someone healthy.
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Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.
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You know, one thing I've learned over 40 years is that when you have jobs in Washington, you do it day by day and that's what I'm doing as secretary of defense.
