Leon Panetta Quotes

Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.

Leon Panetta

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• The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Love
  • Regret

• People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Nature
  • Child

• EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Together
  • Technology
  • Minds

• Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Family
  • Marriage
  • Married

• And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Family
  • Man
  • Law

• I'm the only one responsible for the choices I make and the opportunities I get. When you read the script, you don't know how it's going to shape up. You just know what you've been narrated.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Up
  • Know
  • Choices

• My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Soul
  • Perfect

• Cryptocurrencies are an emergent property of the Internet - almost a fifth protocol in the Internet suite. If Satoshi Nakomoto did not exist, it would still be necessary to invent them.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Internet
  • Exist
  • Almost

• When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?

  

  Jackie Speier
  • People
  • Government
  • Serving

• I have 1.4 million followers on Twitter. I get very interesting, sometimes very diverse input from my followers. So it's sort of like this water cooler, digital water cooler, if you want to think about it, where you go and you listen to conversations that are happening that perhaps will shape your thinking.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Interesting

• Every film is hard to fund.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Film
  • Hard
  • Fund

• I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Life
  • Pretty

• Well if you don’t want me to grow up talkin‘ that way, why do you send me to school?

  

  Harper Lee
  • Up
  • School
  • Why

• My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Laugh
  • Cry
  • Pertinacity

• I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe

• Lying on stained wretched sheets with the bleeding virgin, we could plan a murder...or start a religion.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors

• They can call me crazy if I failAll the chance that I needIs one in a millionAnd they can call me brilliantIf I succeed…

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Crazy

• Lost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Time
  • Lost

• Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same. Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor's own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Important
  • May
  • Business

• If you're in the White House, it's your house, and you can invite whatever friend you want.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • House
  • Friend

• When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one day and I just was no good at it, so my dad said, 'Your stamina's bad.'

  

  Charlie Bewley
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Dad

• We're the only major company in the U.S. that is solely in the professional beauty industry. We promised hairdressers when we started that we would stay with them. If I went retail tomorrow then we would be four times our size overnight, but I'm going to be the one guy who kept his word.

  

  John Paul DeJoria
  • Guy
  • Professional

• I took a step back. "Here." He plunked his wet hat on my head. "Don't go anywhere," he told me, then turned away.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Steps
  • Hats
  • Wet

• Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.

  

  Leon Panetta