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Big mistakes were made in Benghazi, and people should be held accountable. But the brave officers who staff American posts in crisis zones know how dangerous the work is.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Accountable American Benghazi Big Brave Crisis Dangerous Held How Know Made Mistakes Officers People Posts Should Staff Were Who Work Zone

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Obama prefers to look forward, not back, as he has stated. So at least during his tenure, there will be no reliable record compiled as a cautionary tale for lawmakers and presidents in future times of crisis. This is the historical Obama.

~David K. Shipler

Topics: Back Crisis Forward Future He His Historical Lawmakers Least Look Obama Presidents Record Reliable Stated Tale Tenure Times Will

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But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places.

~David Kay

Topics: About After Collect Correct Crisis Cuban Cuban Missile Crisis Immediate Important Important Thing Inability Material Missile Most Most Important Thing Movement Nuclear Often Other Our Out Places Result Soviet Soviet Union Steps Story Taken The Most Important Thing Union Were Which

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'Atomic Blonde' is about the characters' bigger existential crisis and their world. It's not so much the conceit of the spy game; it's more that being a spy sucks. But we're going to make it fun to watch.

~David Leitch

Topics: About Atomic Being Bigger Blonde Characters Conceit Crisis Existential Fun Game Going Make More Much Spy Sucks Watch World

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In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.

~David Morrissey

Topics: Best Crisis Fantasy Honesty Humanity Our People React Selves Think Time Want Will

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I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.

~David Puttnam

Topics: Absolutely Accept Any Confidence Country Crisis Easily Fact Film-Makers Film-Making Focus France Generation Get Goes Happened Happens Italy Kind Lifetime Lose Lost Mix Particular Refuse Very World Young

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The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

~David Remnick

Topics: Away Beautiful Beauty Broadcaster Caravan Complicated Crazy Crisis Filmmaker Goes Job Keeps Moving Moving On Pause Place Radio Stop Strangeness Stuff Tragedy Ugly Weirdness World Writer

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My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone.

~David Remnick

Topics: Afghanistan Almost Almost Everyone Been Between Crisis Editor Everyone Fraught Histories Involves Iraq My Time Prolonged Seemingly States Time Tragic United United States

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I always felt like if I lived in true authentic self-expression and lived in service and in support of many other people, I would be exempt from having to deal with yet another crisis in my life. I was wrong.

~Debbie Ford

Topics: Always Another Authentic Crisis Deal Exempt Felt Having Life Like Lived Many My Life Other People Self-Expression Service Support True Would Wrong

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They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

~Denis Kearney

Topics: Brought Crisis Distress Feed Forty Grasped Greed Human Human Race Lands Millions Millions Of People Natural Natural Resources People Public Race Resources Shelter Stolen Themselves Unparalleled Who Whole

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