Peter Bergen Quotes

Abu Musab al-Suri is someone I got to know pretty well because he's a Syrian. Very bright guy, lived in London. He actually was the person who took myself and correspondent Peter Arnett and the cameraman, Peter Juvenal, to interview bin Laden for his first TV interview.

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Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.

Jodie Foster

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People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

Jermaine Dupri

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I don't feel like I'm getting older. I think it's the way I've looked after myself. I take my football seriously. I love scoring goals and I get a good feeling from it, so I'll do whatever it takes to be fit and feel good in games.

Jermain Defoe

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We have more guns in our country than citizens. I think we could with maybe 100 million fewer guns. And I think we'd be OK.

Jeffrey Wright

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Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would have attracted 500 people, but he introduced a form of Islam that would communicate with the people he had to deal with. He was the king to those who had no king, and he was the messiah to those some people thought unworthy of a messiah.

John Henrik Clarke

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Weak presidents are neither respected nor electorally rewarded by their publics.

Monica Crowley

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Many classical musicians lack pulse and rhythmical strength and precision, so for us it was very important to acquire and learn those.

Luka Sulic

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I don't think I can ever escape from music.

Jason Derulo

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What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

Jonathan Sacks

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A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.

Dorothy Fields

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I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown.

Aubrey Plaza

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I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fanny than because of her. Like Fanny's rich, sophisticated cousins, I didn't really get her.

Susanna Clarke

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