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John O. Brennan Quotes

I think we do have to take off the gloves in some areas, but within balance, and at the right time and the right way, and for the right reason and with full understanding of what the consequences of that might be.

John O. Brennan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Time Balance Think Understanding Way

This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself.

Jim Garrison

Good Personality Man Yourself People

They'd rather see Scooby Doo or Spongebob than Daddy talking about the latest Wall Street Journal editorial. You do what you have to do to get your kids ready for school.

Joe Scarborough

School Talking You Wall Ready See

My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was always a visitor, as far as I was concerned, because my parents separated when I was nine. We only became friends when he was old and began to shrink. During the war, he was a BBC war correspondent and did some extraordinary broadcasts.

Jennifer Johnston

Father God Man War Parents Friends

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

John Ciardi

College University Students Interest

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

Anna Deavere Smith

Death People Sick You Say Want

If you get an idea, you might as well stick with it until somebody calls you on it.

Michael Ian Black

You Stick Well Get Idea Somebody

Understanding place is critical to achieving corporate growth.

John Quelch

Growth Understanding Place Achieving

I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you know, I mean, everybody's kind of loony now. So I was kind of a pioneer in the mental illness thing, too.

Roseanne Barr

You Know Now Kind Mental Illness

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

Diane von Furstenberg

Day Communicate Receive Via E-Mail

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

Chester Himes

Ohio Manhood State Grew

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

Conrad Black

History Country Why Successful Most

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Love Friends Outside Playing Who