Leon Panetta Quotes
Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.
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Of course I get hurt.
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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.
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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.
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I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
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As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
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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.
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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.
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I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.
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I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
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La langue est un systéme dont toutes les parties peuvent et doivent être considérés dans leur solidarité synchronique.
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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.
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And I may add that it taught me something about the limitations of the small . . . orthodox scientist who won't recognize as knowledge, or as reality, any information that doesn't fit into the already existent science.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments
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I'm helping people think the clarinet is cool.
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You have to be driven by something greater than you, where you don't surrender, and you commit to something like that.
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I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.
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All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.
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Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.
