William J. Perry Quotes

Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences... We would not specify in advance what our response would be, but it would be both overwhelming and devastating.

William J. Perry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 11, 1927

Topics

ConsequencesFirstUnitedAgainst

When I became a professor of physics circa 1991, I doubled the number of female professors of physics in the U.K.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em - that's how you write a song. And I haven't been able to do that over here 'cause I'm so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music.

Mel Tillis

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Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.

Andy Samberg

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Most people who are successful don't keep their money. One of the rarest things in the world is to maintain success and integrity - the kinds of things that seem so easy just starting out. But that's the human predicament.

Sophie B. Hawkins

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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Sophocles

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I try to do one thing a day that makes me proud of myself.

Rita Ora

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I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.

Michael Stuhlbarg

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I'm not the rapper that's too cool to tweet and talk to fans.

Logic

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If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

Jon Meacham

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If you're over 52 years old and you're on Facebook, do us all a favor and log off now.

Denis Leary

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I'm not necessarily opposed to greater American involvement. But if that's the way the Mexican government wants to go, it needs to come clean about it. Just look at what we learned from Iraq. Secrecy led to malfeasance. It led to corrupt contracting.

Denise Dresser

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I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

Connie Willis

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