Leon Panetta Quotes

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

Leon Panetta

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• I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • College
  • King
  • Students

• 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

• I'm an Angus King independent.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Independent
  • King

• It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.

  

  Jesse Helms
  • People
  • May

• I actually don't feel famous.

  

  Anwar Robinson
  • Famous

• Satan tries to counterfeit the work of God, and by doing this, he may deceive many. To make us lose hope, feel miserable like himself, and believe that we are beyond forgiveness, Satan might even misuse words from the scriptures that emphasize the justice of God in order to imply that there is no mercy.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Work
  • God
  • Believe

• Does my hair look alright? Of course, it looks alright. Why am I asking you for? ...We get lunch right? ...Can we get this thing going? I gotta meet my girlfriend for a martini.

  

  Alex Riley
  • Girlfriend
  • Asking
  • Alright

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

  

  Leon Panetta