Leon Panetta Quotes
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I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.
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An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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While the protection of speech is at the bedrock of our democracy, it's critical as a nation that we exercise our right every day - and that includes embracing and engaging with those we may not agree with.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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I think of 'Twilight' in terms of the fact that the popularity has given us the opportunity to do the things that we love, and now we can pick and choose.
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I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.'
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I like to race, not to do laps alone.
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We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.
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It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
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I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
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I just believe what I believe.
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More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
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Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
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Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting.
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If you stop exercising - which I did - and if you stop watching your caloric intake - which I did - you're gonna get fat.
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Doing improv really got me started in my whole career.
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One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.
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The United States was attacked on 9/11/12, and we know who attacked us.
