We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.
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Related The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort the... RALPH WALDO EMERSON We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for ... JOHN LEWIS Despite constant vilifying by the media and congressional threats to take away the tools needed to u... RONALD KESSLER You'll find police officers, FBI agents, postal inspectors and brokers. You'll find construction wor... BILL BAY Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit a... MADELEINE M. KUNIN What we need are broadly educated students who become engineers who can speak with people. KURT SCHULZ We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for peopl... JOHN LEWIS May our daily choices be a reflection of our deepest values, and may we use our voices to speak for ... COLLEEN PATRICK-GOUDREAU Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and t... NOAM CHOMSKY by implying that pro-choice Americans have the same values as terrorists, Hughes insulted millions o... CAROLYN MALONEY Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free. ANTHONY WAYNE I want to be open to the kids who only speak Spanish, the kids who speak only Spanglish, and the kid... BECKY G In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one... RICHARD M. NIXON There are no Muslim terrorists. There are terrorists. There are criminals who claim to be Muslims. W... PAUL HAWKINS We have to change the guidelines that we use to recruit those spies, ... In fact the CIA is required... JANE HARMAN I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak. LILLIAN HELLMAN People need to speak out about their feelings to those of us who are in denial, ERIC LOVE People who speak through words very few hear them but people who speak from their heart many feel th... AMIT ABRAHAM I don't care who it is, there are procedures that need to be followed. It has deprived the community... BARBARA GORDON Those who always speak well of women do not know them sufficiently; those who always speak ill of th... GUILLAUME PIGUALT-LEBRUN As an old man who remembers the intellectual exhilaration and the pleasure of having done good work ... CHARLES MCCARRY We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we ne... WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we ne... WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. DOCTOR WHO What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it? DOCTOR WHO Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead. DOCTOR WHO First things first, but not necessarily in that order. DOCTOR WHO I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I ... BETTY WHO I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square! BETTY WHO According to classical aerodynamics, it is impossible for a bumblebee to fly DOCTOR WHO I don't think of Home Depot as romantic, but I do think the Christmas wonderland they put up dur... BETTY WHO There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes. DR. WHO The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to f... DOCTOR WHO Good place to put things - cellars. DOCTOR WHO Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another. DOCTOR WHO When you're a kid, they tell you it's all "Grow up, Get a job. Get married. Get a house, Have a kid.... ~DOCTOR WHO The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. the good things don't always s... DOCTOR WHO I'm not wild about computers myself, but they are a tool. If you have a tool, it's stupid not to use... DOCTOR WHO There are worlds out there where the skies are burning, where the seas asleep, and the rivers dream.... DOCTOR WHO Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority. DOCTOR WHO Resistance is useless. DOCTOR WHO The beauty of cinema is it's something that can be made locally and consumed the world over, DOCTOR WHO I tolerate this century but I don't enjoy it. DOCTOR WHO Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me. BETTY WHO See, it's packing up already! DR. WHO Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel, you never can tell... DR. WHO I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I ... BETTY WHO I was always obsessed with other performers doing their thing, and Britney 'Live in Las Vegas... BETTY WHO To avoid sounding like a cliche, I won't say I want to get proposed to in Paris, but Paris. I wa... BETTY WHO My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be wor... BETTY WHO I'm definitely not pushing to find who can I write with or produce with, but of course I'm o... BETTY WHO I think it's so important as an artist to stand up for what you believe in, and I think that if ... BETTY WHO I still feel like the 10-year-old dancing in front of her mirror, mostly to 'No Strings Attached... BETTY WHO I'm a pretty aggressive girl in general. So if there's a boy that I like, you're going t... BETTY WHO We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convict... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Men understand direct communication. It's bitches who speak in code. KRISTEN ASHLEY It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It happens all the time in heaven, And some day It will begin to happen Again o... شمس الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. Th... PETER MARSHALL Those who can't speak join Toastmasters; Those who can also join. GREG GAZIN As anticipated, when the young women in the current study were asked to select the agents who were m... AMY BAYLOR He who is guilty believes all men speak ill of him ITALIAN PROVERB Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. LAO TZU As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another ba... ADAM GRANT The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves. JANE GOODALL Men who refuse to use condoms do not deserve to be fucked by anyone but other men who refuse to use ... INGA MUSCIO The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are mov... FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI This does not produce the kind of people who can speak their mind about issues. AMMAR ABDULHAMID The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them. CZESłAW MIłOSZ Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to man... KAREN ABBOTT Although the FBI is legally forbidden from monitoring the communications of citizens who are not tar... JEFFREY ROSEN The idea that foreign preachers who don't speak English are radicalizing British youth who speak not... MASSOUD SHADJAREH The idea that foreign preachers who don't speak English are radicalizing British youth who speak not... MASSOUD SHADJAREH We must stand together and resist all such incursion! We must come together in brotherhood and toss ... COURTNEY COLE People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who... BERNARD PIVOT The courts demand that every religious person must accommodatea single atheist who might be 'offende... CAL THOMAS In the short run, using militias might be the quickest and easiest way to improve order on Iraq'... ALEX BERENSON Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer... STEPHEN MALKMUS The sisters and the people who work here do not speak through their Christianity or their religion. ... JANA BENNETT There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of s... BELLE BOYD You've got two choices when picking a Treasury Secretary -- either someone like Rubin, who understan... CHRIS LOW Individuals who are unfamiliar with Florida's roads, traffic regulations and customs, or who speak f... SARAH BRADY The women who are in school can use these computers for research and job searches. A couple of them ... KAREN WEBSTER Like all men who look this good, Frank has no interest in women. DENNIS SHARPE The black people in these films seemed to love the worst things in life—love the dogs that rent th... TA-NEHISI COATES There are those who speak and those who dream. DEJAN STOJANOVIC will not be intimidated by the terrorists. AHMAD CHALABI What the person, who knows the truth, will speak, will not be understood by the person who does not ... DEVDUTT PATTANAIK If the women are so respectable, then wondering why those men who abandon their wife or had celibacy... ANUJ SOMANY If the women are so respectable, then wondering why those men who abandoned their wife or had celiba... ANUJ SOMANY Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something ... JEAN KERR ...for who can speak of the Mazes of the Serpent to those who are not lost in them? PETER ACKROYD There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they... ERNEST HELLO There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when th... ERNEST HELLO I think among the retired FBI agents there are some who would not like to see him come back, but I t... HOWIE CARR Men want to be known and loved for who they are by women. SUZETTE R. HINTON We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists. ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, inc... MARGARET MEAD I've become friends with a number of CIA agents who come here, but they really don't share that many... DAVE BALDWIN Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. GEORGE SANTAYANA
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