Peter Bergen Quotes

Typically, terrorist attacks produce a rally-around-the flag effect as was the case after 9/11 and the huge outpouring of public support that then-President George W. Bush garnered.

Peter Bergen

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SupportFlagEffectPublicAfter

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

Joanne Harris

CultureLanguageLearnYouKnow

I think a great negotiator is an aggressive negotiator, and we're aggressive negotiators, We're not worried about someone coming at us.

Jennifer Konner

GreatThinkSomeoneAggressiveUs

My big journey was around money. I was a successful writer, I was a musician, but I was just always broke.

Jen Sincero

JourneyMoneyAlwaysSuccessfulBig

Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I'm on my way there.

Amanda Harlech

LifeHappinessDressWantWayCult

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.

Tony Judt

LifeChanceMy LifeMeaningBorn

As minorities and other immigrant groups become more important to our economy, the inner city is a crucible that gives us an early look at phenomena that are going to be spreading more broadly in the economy over time.

Michael Porter

TimeCityLookEarlyImportantMore

What provides you with subject matter is your own language - and that's all.

Joseph Brodsky

LanguageYouMatterOwnYour

There's no truth anymore.

Johnny Depp

TruthAnymore

Research is the historical novelist's map, constraint, and purest energy.

Donald McCaig

ResearchEnergyMapHistorical

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

Arthur Ashe

SportsAnalysisParalysisSyndrome

Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person.

Alice McDermott

CharacterMePersonEventsInside

Donald Trump, in my judgment, would make a perilous world even more dangerous. I worry that his tendency to lash out and his ill-informed comments would cause dangerous events to escalate and possibly spin out of control at a time when our world is beset with conflicts.

Susan Collins

TimeControlWorldWorryDangerous

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