Leon Panetta Quotes
I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.
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My health is fine.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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As for 'cultural genocide', if there's any going on these days, it's the genocide of the Britannic inheritance - in North America, in the Antipodes, in Blair's Britain.
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I never thought about the gayness. Liberace just looked like he was having so much fun. And that whole idea of talking directly to the audience, you just went along with him. He made you happy. And he's finally getting acknowledged for all the Elton John, Lady Gaga, Madonna theatrics now that people are looking at his old costumes.
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.
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I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
