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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But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew well enough that for her it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.
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The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.
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Probably the most reliable comfort music for me over the years has been Bach.
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Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world. In some part, this is due to irrigation issues and inhospitable climes. Egypt's dependence on wheat is also partially because for decades it has been cheaper to import wheat, corn, soy and barley from the U.S. than to grow it locally.
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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.
