John Negroponte Quotes

We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.

John Negroponte

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QualityTrainingGovernmentFighting

I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.

Joel Salatin

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Some guy in Germany has my face tattooed on the back of his calf. That was wild. It was a decent tattoo job, but that's kind of weird for me.

Megan Rapinoe

JobMeFaceWeirdBackKind

We take literature too seriously.

Amitava Kumar

LiteratureSeriouslyTakeToo

The oil areas have a big problem digesting the oil. There's too much money, and the people don't know what to do with it. I'm finding all the time that we have more industries and more success stories which are not involved with oil.

Stef Wertheimer

SuccessTimeMoneyPeopleProblem

Don't make election popularity largely a matter of which candidate hires the most creative and effective propagandists. Insist that it be, instead, a running conversation with the public.

Ron Howard

CreativeConversationElectionMatter

What is not cool is if we have a problem with an artist or if an artist has a problem with us, come to us directly. Talk to us. Don't start a Twitter war and all that kind of stuff. That's silly.

Rozonda Thomas

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My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs.

Rupert Friend

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I'm becoming more and more of a backwoodsman. I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more, I'm starting to enjoy being in nature. Just to sit and slow down a little bit.

Michiel Huisman

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Drake's home is its own fantasia, a single-level ranch that sprawls in various wings over 7,500 square feet, from the game room to the gym to Drake's master bedroom with Jacuzzi. The pool is like a scene out of Waterworld, with a bar inside a grotto, waterfalls, and a slide that drops thirty feet through the rock.

Michael Paterniti

HomeGameFeetWingsGymPool

The normal reaction of a publisher when faced with an author with a bee in his bonnet is to grab the check and run.

Michael Korda

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President Eyring is a wise, learned, and spiritual man.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

Dennis Farina

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