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Michael Hayden Quotes

My time in war zones have been fleeting and infrequent. I've been to Iraq. I've been to Afghanistan. I've been to other places where I've collected hazardous duty pay.

Michael Hayden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time War Duty Places Fleeting Pay

Statistically after six months, if an Indigenous or non-Indigenous person has come off welfare, even long-term welfare, and has stuck in that's job for six months, then they've really broken in their own psychology the welfare reliance mentality. They're up on their own two feet.

Andrew Forrest

Job Broken Feet Person Psychology

My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she just wanted me to go to sleep. I ended up falling in love with dancing, singing, acting, the whole entertainment world. Then, my mum ended up taking on an extra job so she could fund me to take singing lessons or go to drama classes.

Mel B

Love Dance Job Sleep Singing World

I had written many things as a journalist, but I had no idea if I could write something scary or romantic or touching that wasn't me writing about someone else's life story. It was really exciting to try.

Jeff Giles

Life Romantic Me Writing Story Try

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

Tracey Emin

Life Mistakes My Life Drunk Sober

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.

Robert D. Hare

Power Money Looking You Find Will

Growing up, I naturally embraced who I was, but I was always battling with myself. So I spent half my time being proud of being a woman and the other half completely hating it.

Rupi Kaur

Time Myself Woman Growing Up Proud

Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories on smartphones; older boys don't read at all, but hunch over video games. Parents and other passengers read on Kindles or skim a flotilla of email and news feeds.

Maryanne Wolf

Children Parents Video Games Look

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

Rowan Williams

History Tyranny Inevitable Nothing

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

Mitch Kapor

Technology Fire Internet Information

I try to behave myself, and I succeed.

Judith Martin

Myself Succeed Try Behave

I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.

Don Rickles

Time War Me World Navy World War II

Even though I played national level badminton, I told my parents when I was in 10th that I was not interested in continuing. Being a model or actor fascinated me from a young age, and I even did a couple of ads when I was just eight years old.

Deepika Padukone

Age Parents Me Young Actor Old