Leon Panetta Quotes
I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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I like seeing girls throw down.
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You have to take over your town in order to take over your city.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.
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Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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I was born free.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.
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Politics is a game of compromise.
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Nobody can tell you how to be a good wife or husband.
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I guess I don’t subscribe to the twee school. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I was trying to make something substantial, something to be read and reread.
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The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
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Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down.
