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Michael Scheuer Quotes

No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.

Michael Scheuer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: public
Nationality: american

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Believe Think Inevitable Pretty

There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.

Angel Olsen

You Kind Expectation Unfair Well

You have to bury nerves, because they can either destroy you or give you that extra boost. You have to use your nerves in a good way. Don't let them destroy you.

Tori Bowie

Good You Way Destroy Give Extra

I'm not a big football person at all.

Robert De Niro

Football Person Big

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

Time Talent Me Writing Famous Up

Without doubt, without hesitation, I choose gardening over the gym. I can't stand going to the gym. It doesn't appeal to me at all. Give me gardening every time.

Mary Berry

Time Gardening Me Stand Choose Gym

Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.

Joseph Brodsky

Poetry Important More Human Just

When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's only recourse to violence.

Don Winslow

Law Violence You Something Deal

I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.

Anton Corbijn

I Am People Famous Something Simply

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Plato

Education Nature Children Man World

In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.

Tyler Cowen

Good Music Creative Computers Think

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Time Brainy Right Always

When a hospital is very crowded, there will be a real push to make sure people get their X-rays, get their tests and, you know, 'Let's get them out in four days'.

Leo Varadkar

People Push You Know Will Hospital