Peter Bergen Quotes

Afghanistan's winters in the north are legendarily harsh, and southern Afghanistan, by contrast, is bleak desert. These difficulties are compounded by the fact that Afghanistan is one of the world's most heavily mined countries.

Peter Bergen

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You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

John Barrymore

GoodYouBadDareOnly

Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.

Melissa Leo

ActorPlaygroundRecessBeingGoing

You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative. Of course, I don't agree with that narrative.

John Mackey

BusinessPeopleCapitalismSelfish

I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.

Jeff Lemire

BookFeelI Feel LikeArtistsLike

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

Tom Peters

PeopleToughNailsTwoThingsWell

I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.

Tom Seaver

GoodGameFoundationYouPitching

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

Mike Mills

ArtMoreCraftsmanFilmIdea

President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?

Michelle Malkin

FaithTimeMedicalPeopleBackNext

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

Chinua Achebe

FatherMotherTeacherParentsEarly

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

Chow Yun-Fat

MotherTreatLanguageI CanMy Own

If you talk to people about the history of the games business during economic downturns, they'll tell you that it's a recession-proof industry.

Bobby Kotick

BusinessHistoryPeopleYouTalk

I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.

Armstrong Williams

FutureChildrenLawBelieveThink

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