Leon Panetta Quotes
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
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I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.
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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
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There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
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There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live. Someone has to take the initiative to love and trust her fellow living creature and set us all free.
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I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.
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I cannot help hoping that many will feel themselves obliged to buy it. I shall not mind imagining it a disagreeable duty to them, so as they do it.
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Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.
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I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach about an 80 percent proficiency level. To go beyond that requires an obsession that doesn't appeal to me. Once I reach 80 percent level I like to go off and do something totally different; that probably explains the diversity of the Patagonia product like - and why our versatile, multifaceted clothes are the most successful.
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Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
