Jonathan Powell Quotes

When it comes to terrorism, governments seem to suffer from a collective amnesia. All of our historical experience tells us that there can be no purely military solution to a political problem, and yet every time we confront a new terrorist group, we begin by insisting we will never talk to them.

Jonathan Powell

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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

John Milton

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I love my fans in Pakistan for being so kind and letting me be myself. Along this journey of exploring myself and a new world out here, I'm always going to make them proud, too. They're my constant support system.

Mawra Hocane

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Mr. Trump's memory is fantastic. I've never come across a situation that Mr. Trump has said something that is not accurate.

Michael Cohen

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We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.

Rob Pike

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You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble.

Ron Paul

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I'm getting more confident the more I play.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

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I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.

Jordana Brewster

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In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.

Christian Bale

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It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

Colin Firth

TimeYourselfLoserYouAlwaysSeem

If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up.

Brandon Thomas

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My father, who was a good deal older than my mother, had basically grown up with silent films; sound didn't arrive until he was 30 years old. So he took me to see silent pictures at MoMA when I was 5 or 6 years old.

Peter Bogdanovich

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Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility.

Peter Jackson

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