Leon Panetta Quotes
I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.Leon Panetta
Quotes to Explore
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
Nate Silver -
The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
Otto Schily -
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. Bradley -
I am a very reclusive, private person.
Camille Paglia -
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.
e. e. cummings -
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
Ada Lovelace
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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.
Olivia d'Abo -
Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
J. G. Ballard -
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.
Omari Hardwick -
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.
Walter Gropius -
I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
Tamala Jones -
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.
Ibrahim Babangida
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When liberty returns, I will return.
Victor Hugo -
I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
Indira Gandhi -
It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
Barbara Kruger -
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!
Rachael Ray
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Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.
Ted Cruz -
People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America.
Mary Pipher -
Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.
Amy Klobuchar -
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg -
It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'
Anna Kendrick -
I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
Leon Panetta