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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You have to learn how to read contracts, how to position yourself, and about marketing. That is why you find the most successful artists are the ones who can mix creativity with business.
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If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.
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You are the real teachers. You have these children when they are at their emotional peaks and lows. That's when they are the most pliable. It doesn't take any intelligence to send a kid home with his head hanging between his knees. But to send him home with his head up every night might show a little coaching.
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There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Canal+ in France and, after the film was finished, it was sold to MGM. When the film was a success, MGM decided to do a television series based on the movie.
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I prefer the gloominess to the sun. I don't know why.
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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.
