Leon Panetta Quotes

Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.

Leon Panetta

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• Of course I get hurt.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hurt
  • Get
  • Course

• With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Pleasure

• As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.

  

  Parker Posey
  • You
  • Like
  • Artist

• It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • People
  • Great
  • Effort

• To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Important
  • Failure
  • Achieve

• Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Business
  • Model
  • Copyright

• I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Music
  • Country
  • Listen

• I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she'll forward it to me. She's like my little Internet filter. It's always nice to see something going up; if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I've got a nice little delivery system in my mom.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Mom

• There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: always go on a rainy day so you can see how badly the roofs leak.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Education
  • Day
  • Lawyer

• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Why
  • Always

• The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Family
  • Her
  • Respectable

• I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Good
  • Think
  • Beauty

• La langue est un systéme dont toutes les parties peuvent et doivent être considérés dans leur solidarité synchronique.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure

• I don’t get angry, I don’t want to use harsh words. They are our colleagues and we have to work with them. But they also have to learn to work with us.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Work
  • Words
  • Angry

• Our ancestry streches back through the life forms and into the stars, back into the beginnings of the primeval fireball. This universe is a single multiform energetic unfolding of matter, mind, intelligence and life.

  

  Brian Swimme
  • Stars
  • Ancestry
  • Life Forms

• I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

  

  Ryan Murphy
  • Journalist
  • Wrote
  • Histories

• Usually with something like 'The 100,' because you're working so much and every day, and they'll change the drafts quite quickly, we'll go through maybe, like, 12 different versions of the same scene over a week. So there is no point in learning it on a Tuesday when on a Thursday it might be completely different.

  

  Alycia Debnam-Carey
  • Different
  • Learning
  • Thursday

• The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it becomes an ever-flowing spring - as Sappho says, 'More real than real, more gold than gold.'

  

  Kenneth Rexroth
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Gold

• Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Language
  • Laugh

• Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.

  

  Leon Panetta