John O. Brennan Quotes

I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people.

John O. Brennan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 22, 1955

Topics

DayPeopleNightAmericanEnoughGo

I've been in the emergency room for food poisoning.

Jessica St. Clair

FoodEmergencyRoomBeenPoisoning

I've been interested in terrorism from the very beginning. My first novel is about that, too, and I think one reason I've been so interested in terrorism is because I have a deep interest - one of my deepest interests - in image culture and how it works. And terrorism is an epiphenomenon of image culture.

Jennifer Egan

CultureBeginningDeepThinkImage

It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize 'The Virgin Suicides' soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.

Matthew Gray Gubler

MusicCoolThinkUniqueListen

A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either have or you don't is this ability to see something that's complex and worth talking about.

Matt de la Pena

PeopleMeThinkTalkingWorthYou

Financially, I've done very well doing what I do. I've got plenty of money in the bank. I've got gigs with FOX doing analyst work, media work. The UFC has been very kind to me. Ultimately, however, I want to be world champion. I have to achieve that to validate my entire career.

Michael Bisping

WorkMoneyMeWorldChampionDoing

Every time I lock my people in a spacecraft or land them on an asteroid, the blood wells up again, and I'm writing horror. Horror's my default setting. It's also where I prefer to write.

Stephen Graham Jones

TimePeopleWritingBloodLandUp

There must be so many people who have various artistic talents that, for whatever reason, just have no way of expressing them. Either they have no support from their family or they live in a part of the world, maybe they've never heard a piano or seen a piano.

Stephen Hough

FamilyLiveSupportPeopleWorld

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

Sugar Ray Leonard

BoxingAggressiveOutInstinct

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Tony Robbins

DecisionActionRememberYouNew

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Michel de Montaigne

LifeMy LifeNeverTerribleBeen

There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.

Michael Stipe

PeopleMeWayBeyondChoirStage

If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.

Lou Ferrigno

PeopleYouHideFindTryOut

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