Peter Bergen Quotes

If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable to accomplish one of their key missions, their shareholders would have long ago revolted, fired their management, and their stock would be trading at values near zero.

Peter Bergen

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'Fine dining.' I'd love to know who coined the term and whether they meant it to be as offputting as it is. The words evoke an idea of phoney refinement, of needless flummery, snooty waiters, and an atmosphere designed to intimidate the customer.

John Lanchester

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My grandparents left the Pale of Settlement at the border of western Russia and Eastern Europe in the early 1900s, fleeing anti-Semitism and hoping to make a better life for their children in America.

Merrick Garland

LifeChildrenBorderBetterAmerica

The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerful taboos. I believe that the sciences will be regenerated when they are set free.

Rupert Sheldrake

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I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.

Mike Tyson

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Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

Milton Friedman

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My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

Lorna Luft

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You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family.

Louie Anderson

FamilyFunnyYourselfEnoughYou

Compared to film or television, theater is more interactive, collaborative.

Julia Stiles

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I'm generally risk averse, and most great entrepreneurs I know are as well.

Jason Fried

GreatKnowRiskWellMostAverse

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

Douglas Wilson

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I love silence.

Brenda Blethyn

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If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade, seventh-grade level.

Richard Carmona

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