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.

Leon Panetta

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• I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Work
  • Being
  • Reputation

• I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• 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?

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Why
  • Give
  • Nobody

• Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Sounds
  • Drummer
  • Groovy

• Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Lead
  • Street
  • Warm

• 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.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Think
  • Leadership

• 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.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• 'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Journey

• I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Live
  • Newspaper
  • Bubble

• Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Trying
  • Success
  • Try

• 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.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • People
  • Faith

• I'm very articulate when I wanna be. You wanna talk to me?

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss

• 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.

  

  Jack Vance
  • World
  • Home
  • Business

• Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Party

• I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Die
  • Serious
  • Fake

• Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Good
  • Different
  • Art

• Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they're not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Fall

• The old joke in my family is that the last person who isn't from New York was coming from Russia.

  

  Emory Cohen
  • Family

• We were happy with funding 'Rage' on our own nickel for years. We intended to do the same with 'Doom 4'. We had offers early on for 'Rage'. People offered us X million dollars. But we carried the risk, and when we finally signed a deal, it was X plus $10 million.

  

  John Carmack
  • People
  • Happy
  • Risk

• When actresses play actresses, or actors play actors, they have to find another level.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Play
  • Actors
  • Levels

• One of the first big agencies that represented me, my point person there - this was over 10 years ago, so it's no one who I work with now or have worked with recently - but he told me that I was too ambitious.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • Work

• I realised I was tiring of our games, fed up with trying to second guess his motives, weary of trying to hold myself aloof so that I wouldn't lose face.

  

  Catherine Sanderson
  • Games
  • Guess
  • Motives

• 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.

  

  Leon Panetta