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I spent over 10 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, serving overseas, serving in the Middle East. And let me tell you, if you're a terrorist and you want to come to the United States, the worst possible way to do it is as a refugee. You'll go through a year and a half to two years of vetting.

~Evan Mcmullin

Topics: Agency Central Come East Go Half Intelligence Me Middle Middle East Over Overseas Possible Refugee Serving Spent States Tell Terrorist Through Two United United States Want Way Worst Year Years You

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There's a national ambition, a collective, in a sense, political ambition, which I think is the thing we see from far away. That's the fact that China's building roads and airports and extending its reaches out into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and in a way that's putting it into some tension with its neighbors.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Airport Ambition Away Building China Collective East Extending Fact Far Far Away National Neighbors Out Political Putting Roads Sea See Sense Some South Tension Thing Think Way Which I Think

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I knew just by reading this guy, Nathanael West, that he was probably one of those icky East Coast guys with glasses who got mad because when he came to L.A., all those starlets preferred producers or cowboys to him.

~Eve Babitz

Topics: Because Came Coast Cowboys East East Coast Glasses Got Guy Guys He Him Just Knew Mad Preferred Producers Reading Those West Who

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I have my tombstone already. A tombstone company in the East gave it to me when I jumped Snake Canyon. My plot is in Montana.

~Evel Knievel

Topics: Canyon Company East Gave Me Montana Plot Snake Tombstone

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I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.

~Falk Hentschel

Topics: Army Back Before Between Born Brat Came Down East Escaped Forth Germany Grew Guess London Minnesota Over Place Sort Up Wall I Was Born

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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

~Fanny Howe

Topics: Ballroom Bar Dancer East Glittering Nyc Over Stanley Street

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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

~Fatema Mernissi

Topics: Achieve Cannot Could Daughters Dream East Education Even Force Get Happening Middle Middle East Mothers Out Progressive Push Realize Strong Understand Women

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Tar sands are attractive, but like biofuels, they will never replace Middle East oil.

~Fatih Birol

Topics: Attractive East Like Middle Middle East Never Oil Replace Sands Tar Will

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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

~Fidel Castro

Topics: Africa America Asia Australia Caribbean Century Colonial Dominion East East Asia England First Half Islands Large Large Part Many Middle Middle East North North America Over Part Power True Use 20Th Century

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If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.

~Forest Whitaker

Topics: East Family Father Go Just Mother Out Preacher Reunion Side Teacher Ten Texas Way

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