Peter Bergen Quotes

Anwar al-Awlaki was a U.S. citizen by virtue of his birth in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in 1971 while his Yemeni father was studying at New Mexico State University.

Peter Bergen

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FatherNewCitizenVirtueBirth

Mobile devices, high-speed data communication, and online commerce are creating expectations that convenient, secure, real-time payment and banking capabilities should be available whenever and wherever they are needed.

Jerome Powell

CommunicationExpectationsData

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

GodSchoolMemoryThoughtYouFind

Trust is a big word for me. Loyalty and trust, for me, are everything. It's the core of what I'm about and what the people around me hopefully are about. It's a certain thing that gives you a sense of security. It's the biggest factor in everything I do.

Tommy Mottola

LoyaltyTrustPeopleMeYouBig

I wasn't embraced as an Irish artist back in the Moloko days. Modern electronica isn't what you think of when you think of Irish music.

Roisin Murphy

MusicThinkYouArtistBackIrish

I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when I'm working on a book.

Jostein Gaarder

WorkDayWritingWorldBookThree

I had a journalist slap me, and it wasn't anyone that I had ever met before. I was at the airport.

Jay Ellis

MeAirportSlapBeforeMetEver

I like seeing comedians do stuff that I could never do.

Josh Thomas

SeeingNeverComediansLikeStuff

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going.

Denzel Washington

PassionPeopleUpsetOfficeBoxOut

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

Douglas Coupland

ConflictTen CommandmentsTenSeven

I went camping for 33 days, and now everybody seems to care.

Colleen Haskell

CareNowCampingDaysSeems

My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'

Bobby Knight

PositiveRideMeNegativeThinking

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.

Annette Bening

GoodSoulMaskSomeoneCameraYou

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