"I don't expect our leaders to be free of mistakes, I expect our leaders to own up to them."

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Source : Paul Rieckhoff (2006). “Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier's Perspective”, p.311, Penguin

Paul Rieckhoff

#Mistake Quotes #Leader Quotes

“A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.”

Source : "Fictional character: Old Rose". "Titanic", www.imdb.com. 1997.
“I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.”

Source : "Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's best shot" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2009.
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”
“I've met so many people of my son's generation who think a sacrifice is when their satellite or Internet is out for a day and that the country owes them something. That old J.F.K. quote about 'what you can do for your country,' doesn't even seem to apply to so many people.”
“Gorecki, you know, there's a kind of personal thing there for me. I had, you know, kind of become obsessed with that sort of Soviet Bloc period. And actually, a lot of composers in the Soviet Bloc - Gorecki's not the only one - are writing for the harpsichord as a sort of reaction against enforced Soviet realism, expressionism, sort of enforced modernism.”
“I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.”

Source : "Fox Business Network's Lou Dobbs Says Candy Crowley 'Took Over' Debate (Q&A)". Interview with Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 21, 2012.
“My characters always like themselves.”
“There's always a tug of war. Like, in the States, in America, there's certainly a higher quotient, I would imagine, of, like, macho, like, masculinity posturing.”

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