Peter Bergen Quotes

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein brutally repressed all forms of opposition to his regime, and before the Iraq War, al Qaeda had no presence in Iraq.

Peter Bergen

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I started out real young as a tight end, but I was never getting the football. I knew when I played basketball, I loved to have control of the ball. When I played baseball, I was a pitcher. I always wanted to be the guy throwing the passes and making a difference, I guess.

Jim Kelly

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I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

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The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

John Muir

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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To me it's incontrovertible that investment in people, investment in business, creates jobs; they don't destroy jobs.

Stephen Pagliuca

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When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.

Ritchie Blackmore

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Back in the early '70s, when Susie and I were first married, we had a little house that we rented, and we used to have parties. People would come, and they wouldn't leave. I used to get so tired. I'd put on the Stanley Brothers, 'Songs for the Good People,' and the house would clear in five minutes. It was not liked; it was alien. It was weird.

Ry Cooder

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Rule number one in negotiating anything with Missy is never try and run me over. Never push me, because I am a very strong woman. I'm nice, but I'm very strong. When it gets down gritty, I can get grittier. Never, ever underestimate me.

Missy Elliott

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I really only have a few friends.

Milla Jovovich

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I was lucky to live 10 years in France, so I learned how to eat and drink there.

Lorraine Bracco

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My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.

Lorraine Toussaint

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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Joseph Stalin

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