Leon Panetta Quotes
I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.

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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.
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If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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Emotions are useless during business hours.
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The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.
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I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.
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Because if you weren't born white, you were forced to see differences; or if you weren't born what they called normal, or if you got injured, then you were left to explore the world of the different.
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I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.