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John R. Allen Quotes

Al Qaeda has come back. Al Qaeda is a resilient organization. But they're not here in large numbers. But al Qaeda doesn't have to be anywhere in large numbers.

John R. Allen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: american
Birth: December 15, 1953

Topics

Organization Back Numbers Here Come

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

Stephen Covey

Age School Pressure Better Doing

It's pretty tough to play some good footy when your team is always losing.

Sonny Bill Williams

Good Losing Team Tough Play Always

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

Stieg Larsson

Myself Society Know Kind Outside

I am always going to be the same guy. The fireman that lives in Cleveland.

Stipe Miocic

I Am Same Always Guy Going Am

Well-written plays deserve to be learned from and understood properly, both by actors and audiences alike, and Rattigan's very human characters help us do that.

Roger Rees

Help Deserve Human Alike Us Learned

How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.

Michael Moore

Democracy Gun You Down Country How

I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

Lizzy Caplan

Character Fun Think Trying You Play

I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.

Lisa Loeb

Music Focus Simple Trying Down Way

I think that I learned a studio system prefers a sort of professionalism from the director.

Doug Liman

Think Professionalism Director System

A lot of people get writer's block, and I think you just have to show up for work, sit down, and be like, 'I'm here.' You have to stay confident and positive that you're going to write something.

Brian Fallon

Positive Work People Think Confident

I had to restrain myself from buying a book on 19th-century fruit knives.

Susanna Clarke

Myself Fruit Book Buying Restrain

When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like.

Noam Chomsky

Way University Like Stanford Secular