Leon Panetta Quotes
After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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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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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.
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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.
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The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.
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After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.
