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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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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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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There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
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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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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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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 have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
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I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.
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Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
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I think the reasons I retired stay the same. I don't want to change my style. I can't take a punch like I used to for whatever reason. I've heard all sorts of theories as to why that would happen, but I can't do it.
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Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.
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Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
