Daniel Byman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Terrorism is nothing new. Lots of terrorist attacks are nothing new, but we pay a lot more attention to them today.
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We need to recognize that although terrorism is real, there are many other dangers out there. And terrorism should not be the only driver or necessarily the leading driver of our foreign policy and especially of our domestic politics.
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We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they start out assuming it's terrorism and then work backwards and say it may or may not have been terrorism. And it does matter tremendously because of the resources involved. If it's a crime that's seen as a disturbed individual, then local police will handle it. If it's a crime that's seen as someone who might be linked to an international terrorist group, you get the vast federal U.S. national security bureaucracy as well as tremendous political attention.
-- Daniel Byman
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A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.
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Not a penny off the pay, not a second on the day.
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To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay for its benefits... Therefore, while using language, as we must of necessity, we should be aware of its shortcomings.
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But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.
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Today, ... anything you can come up with that works is worth trying.
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