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John R. Allen Quotes

We're probably going to see some post-2014 military presence - some U.S. presence and a NATO presence - and while we've got much work to do in the next 29 months, we'll have additional time later for the continued professionalization of the Afghan security forces.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Time Security Military See Got

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Fire Society Must Idealism Our

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

John C. Calhoun

Positive Good Peace I Am War Evil

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

Intellectual Interest Whose Still

I was lucky to grow up in a family where your parents loved you no matter what you were or what you came out as, and a lot of kids don't have that ride.

Family Ride Parents Loved Grow You

If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally.

Time Day People Lunch Start Walking

We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.

Trouble Want Things Against Us

I have learned that being a politician is not an easy job. My father was trying to make progress in the peace treaty with the Soviet Union. At that time, he was suffering from last-stage cancer, but he visited Moscow in the bitter cold. I learned from my father that you may have to risk your own life to make such a historic accomplishment.

Life Father Time Job Peace Progress

I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives.

World Information News Know Young

I'm not a stereotypically beautiful woman, and I'm so happy that I'm not. I've seen those ladies - the need to be attractive at all times is ghastly. Also, in your twenties, if you are beautiful, everything comes to you, so you never need to develop a personality. I never had that problem.

Beautiful Personality Woman Happy

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Education Past Ideas American Been

Whoever you're playing against, you want to do as well as you can.

You Want Playing Against Well

I had a really, really hard time working with Aniston because I was so in love with her. I was infatuated. I was speechless - I'd get all bubbly and forget my lines and completely blank. It was so difficult.

Love Time Forget Difficult Hard Her

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