Leon Panetta Quotes
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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I had the feeling every time I was on a plane everyone was going to die. It was a horrible phobia. A stupid one.
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Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How lucky that our planet is just the right distance from the sun: a little farther, and the death of the perpetual Antarctic winter - or worse - would prevail; a little closer, and the surface would truly fry anything that touched it.
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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Exceptional businesses sustain bottom-line results, which they invest to create meaningful, positive impact for their stakeholders.
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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
