Michael Hayden Quotes

When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'

Michael Hayden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 17, 1945

Topics

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Your intention going in is to do the best you can. You go in and do your work, day to day, the best you can. But it's entirely up to the director and the editor and the producers and the studio how it turns out.

John Candy

WorkBestDayYouIntentionGo

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.

Andrew Motion

GreatTimePoetryTryingWayEvents

I see teenagers or people who are 21 and think, 'I was an idiot at that age.' I was running around New York like a crazy woman. Thank God I only had three and a half cents to my name. I was too immature to handle success then.

Melissa McCarthy

SuccessGodAgeWomanNew YorkName

I know what kind of books I read on vacation, and it is not necessarily 'Diplomacy' by Henry Kissinger. No disrespect to that book; I have read that book. But not on spring break.

Meghan McCain

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I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Jeff Bridges

GreatIdeasFilmmakingWayLucky

I hit as hard and as fast in the first week of camp as I do in the last week of camp. So it doesn't matter if it's two weeks' notice or 10 weeks' notice.

Michael Bisping

WeekFastMatterFirstHardTwo

Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world.

Amitava Kumar

StyleMeWorldInterestApproach

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Sun Tzu

GoodArtBestWarCountryEnemy

I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.

Robert Ballard

PlaceEarthSayFavoriteWould

I think that having a platform and having a voice to be seen by people beyond the classical ballet world has really been my power, I feel.

Misty Copeland

PowerPeopleWorldVoiceThinkFeel

I had the sets that meant so much to this character built - right in my home, especially the kitchen, which was important both for her character and for your introduction to her when Albert comes to visit.

Debbie Reynolds

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Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.

Christina Perri

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