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"I've been involved in the intelligence side of the federal government for a long time. We all know that we have to have a balance between security to protect the American people and liberty. We take an oath to protect and defend the constitution and the American people."
"I am confident that Assad's days are numbered. But what we can't do is to simply suggest that, as Governor Romney at times has suggested, that giving heavy weapons, for example, to the Syrian opposition is a simple proposition that would lead us to be safer over the long term."
"As long as I'm president of the United States Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. I made that clear when I came into office."
"The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born."
"Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost."
"The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. "Seeking" implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment."
"For a long time humans probably were in touch on a deeper level with the depths of their being, unconsciously so, the same way an animal or a tree is. Gradually, though, more and more of their identity went into the movement of thought. They identified more and more with the movement of thinking."
"Love can't always be measured by how long u wait,it's about how well u understand WHY and WHAT you are waiting"
"There are tons of different reasons why you do TV series and why you don't, and how it'll affect your career, and all that. Without a doubt, it has always come down to the script for me. I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles."
"For me, it doesn't matter whether it's a comedy, a Western or horror. As long as you've got a good story to tell, the genre almost doesn't matter. As an actor playing the role, it's all rooted in reality."
"I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work."
"Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause."
"I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something."
"Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time."
"Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of."
"I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner."
"It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing."
"The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique."
"Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it."
"There`s a long conversation we`re going to have about how to enforce immigration laws. But physically securing the border is essential."
