Peter Bergen Quotes

A key flaw of the Obama administration's approach to Afghanistan has been constantly announcing proposed withdrawal dates for U.S. forces, which has enabled the Taliban to believe they can simply wait out the clock.

Peter Bergen

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We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.

Joan Didion

LiveExperienceIdeasLineNarrative

I went to an all-boys school and hated feeling like one of the crowd.

Jeremy Irvine

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People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.

Andrew Cuomo

PeopleBadWantRunOfficeMay

People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.

Robert Mueller

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We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.

John Wesley Powell

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I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn't film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, underwater, across the face. I finished the shot, got into the boat and blood started coming out.

Steve Irwin

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I do find it a bit disconcerting when your name becomes a brand.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

BrandNameFindYourBitBecomes

Drake could diss me 20,000 times, and I would never diss him. I'm a fan.

Tory Lanez

MeNeverHimWouldFanCould

I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.

Jason Alexander

KnowShyKidWhereFitQuite

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Josh Billings

BetterKnowNothingThan

You should never appease terrorists. The mistake made by critics of the 'talking to your enemy' approach is to equate talking with appeasing.

Jonathan Powell

MistakeTalkingYouEnemyNever

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

Douglas Coupland

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