Along the way he also learned one or two things about leadership and national security and what our country is all about and what we're trying to do in the world.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... GERMANY KENT I don't write romance novels, any more than Tom Clancy writes legal thrillers. Yes, I write about lo... NICHOLAS SPARKS Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you... LISA KLEYPAS The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks abou... TONY DUNGY The No. 1 issue with women in this country is jobs, and the No. 2 issue is our national security. So... MARSHA BLACKBURN All I’m trying to say is, be kind to yourself. This one life is all we’ve got, and we all make m... J. LEIGH BRALICK This is to let the public see what national security is all about. Just to let the public know that ... HENRY LIU Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON Living in a way that reflects one's values is not just about what you do, it is also about how you d... DEBORAH DAY Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he wa... YōKO OGAWA He also told me that stepping down a level wouldn't affect my chances. It's all about what I do for ... CLINTON MORRISON How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recogni... P. J. HARVEY The great thing about our country is we all get to say what we feel and believe. Whether you agree w... JOEL MADDEN We do learn a few things along the way. People can take advantage of what we learned. JEFF WARWICK Commercial ties and trying to sort of make all the profit that we can make has trumped all concern f... PAUL WELLSTONE What is a threat to national security and who determines what is a threat to national security? JOE BARKER You don't tell an astronaut what to do. ATMOSPHERE I like Morrie a lot. Like him, I'm a teacher and I'm also Jewish. For some in the academic world, so... HAROLD GOULD The president's getting a lot of advice about things he might do in the days ahead, and he will do w... MIKE MCCURRY A whole holiday about studying the Constitution just sounds like they're pushing, like they're tryin... PATRICK SULLIVAN Don’t keep your greatness; exhibit it to the admiration of all but note however also to keep your ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. JIM HARRISON We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dream... JOSEPH EPSTEIN Unlike President Obama, I would say that I support the long-standing bipartisan post-war belief that... TOM COTTON I'd like to have the American people solidly behind the president. But again, if the president has t... JAMES INHOFE What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c... DONNA TARTT The thing we've been trying to emphasize all along is it is all about the team. Chase has been a big... DAVE CASSAW We're going to do international news and are trying to do a Russian angle on them, trying to show wh... MARGARITA SIMONYAN Our ports, the most vulnerable in the country because they've not been thought about as national sec... KAREN THURMAN In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we ar... A. S. BYATT The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our de... BARBARA LEE I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonli... LISA KLEYPAS It's a great solution. The senior project is less about what production you're in than it is about s... SANDRA FORMAN I'm confident that our government is not doing all it should do. We thought about what we could have... GENE RICCIO The cookie all crumbled at one time for us. We had all the questions about our coach, we lost three ... JAMES COX I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that throug... PATTI SMITH All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot a... CARRIE UNDERWOOD What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and L... VICKI BAUM This is what our country is all about. Everybody is proud of their American citizenship and they wan... MICHAEL YOUNG The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv... ABIGAIL GEORGE What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. CRAIG GROESCHEL Victor wondered about lots of things. He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, ... VICTORIA SCHWAB And what about Beazley? He had two weeks in which to call Greg and never did. The family know the tr... MARK LATHAM Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values we... OSCAR ISAAC We weren't concerned about what GM was doing. We were concerned with what the consumers were doing. ... DON ROMANO This is about Tom DeLay today. It doesn't matter what he's done for the district in the past or that... BOB STEIN What do you care about deeply? What would you dedicate your life to if you could? What would you die... DEREK RYDALL Because at the end of the day that’s what we’re all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, de... TABITHA SUZUMA What we're trying to do is stimulate discussions among senior scholars about the nature of political... ZAYDE ANTRIM Ques eso? Queso? NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and worki... MARIO CUOMO Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I think sometimes there is no right thing. ROSAMUND HODGE We're not so much focusing on making a criminal case as we are trying to understand what our nationa... BOB GRAHAM What about Monday? That could be our one day we look at things the same way, and wear funny shoes. KEVIN DALTON Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so wha... RORY BREMNER I've learned a lot just being around LeBron. People say things about him all the time, but he wo... BEN SIMMONS What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected ... EDDIE REDMAYNE Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolute... JONATHAN CARROLL To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what t... RANDY TRAVIS I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were a... EMMYLOU HARRIS My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I can't do anything about ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and... GLENN BECK Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing he... JODI PICOULT I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN After I had my kids, I realized it's pretty much all about instinct - you have to do what's ... TORI SPELLING For better of for worse the church in the West bought modernity's claims. We were baptized in its st... TIM KEEL If a man has learned to think, no matter what he may think about, he is always thinking of his own d... WILLIAM BARRETT But when he came out he began to realize what we were talking about, and he had breakfast with Coach... ERNIE ZEIGLER The idea of a fringe festival came along and it was a no-brainer, it seemed perfectly suited to our ... LAWRENCE KAMPF He would never betray his country or compromise its national security. EDWARD O'DONNELL All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers an... OLIVER NORTH Wanting to know things and do things is what the human race is all about. Exploration, Gwendy! Both ... STEPHEN KING It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about t... VICENTE FOX Oh, yeah. I know Dizzy. For years he's been my buddy way, way, way back. Dizzy is one of the mos... BILLY ECKSTINE One wants to mutter deeply that apart from having two good legs I also have two good degrees and it ... EDWINA CURRIE And so in time the rowboat and I became one and the same-like the archer and his bow or the artist a... RICHARD BODE The Commission's vote is disappointing to everyone who cares about St. Louis and the security of our... TODD AKIN How did it come about that highly sensitive technical information was given to the Chinese? Why did ... PORTER GOSS We already have a security plan in place what we're looking to do now is to improve our response ... BILL BENNETT In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - in... BARACK OBAMA He stood up for what believed .... Don't get confused by the method he used. His legacy is not about... TED BAILEY I've been given more opportunities, and I'm just trying to step up and do big things along with Sean... ADRIAN JOSEPH Motivation 1.0 presumed that humans were biological creatures, struggling to obtain our basic needs ... DANIEL H. PINK The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is tryi... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, becaus... DONALD TRUMP You know, here we were, all of us doomed, I thought -- the whole country doomed -- and here, in what... ADOLF HITLER He thought of how when you went out and listened to what people said, you heard all kinds of things,... JAMES T. FARRELL It was great for country to come to New York City to widen the scope of what we are trying to do wit... JAY DEMARCUS Matt is smart, never gets rattled. And he's an excellent athlete. Tom? He's the kind of player you d... MIKE DIMATTEO All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. ... ROBERT FULGHUM All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. ... ROBERT FULGHUM
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Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a littl... TOM CRUISE I go without sleep, I just go hard. TOM CRUISE When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to... TOM CRUISE Football is unconditional love. TOM BRADY My favorite meal has always been fried chicken. TOM WATSON The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience. TOM HIDDLESTON Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, c... TOM REISS Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions. KIANA TOM Good things, when short, are twice as good. TOM STOPPARD Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper... TOM STOPPARD The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe th... TOM STOPPARD I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them. 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