Peter Bergen Quotes

Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.

Peter Bergen

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I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.

Jimmy Nail

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Mel Gibson doesn't need your judgment, he needs your prayers.

Jim Caviezel

NeedJudgmentPrayersYourNeedsHe

I've realized that no problem is as hopeless as it first may seem, I've learned how to live day to day and show others how to do the same, and most of all, I've learned how to just be.

Jessie Pavelka

LiveDayProblemHopelessOthers

A lot of times, us within the industry, we can put this bubble around ourselves and create what a show is supposed to look like and sound like, and we're seeing so much content. The best compliment is, 'I finally found something to watch with my family,' or, 'This is how I really feel, and I can't believe they're showing this on television.'

Jerrod Carmichael

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I've often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. 'They're never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.' I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creatively challenged, but never to be told what to do.

John Lasseter

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A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

Robert M. Gates

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No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.

Matt Cameron

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If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

Spike Jonze

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I remember when I started writing lyrics, I was very grand. I tried to use a lot of symbols,because I thought that's how songwriting should be - with imagery and metaphor. I figured, after a while, maybe I should just write it as I would say in real life.

Sigrid

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Usually when you do a pilot, there's a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down.

Rosemarie DeWitt

MomentTogetherGet TogetherYouSay

I do think that once you remove the limitations of the page, once you turn text transitive, meaning it can be clicked away from, the forward movement of text can be interrupted. But I don't think this is just a function of technology. It's also a function of cultural preference.

Joshua Cohen

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Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.

Jason Fried

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