At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.


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When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
CANDICE BERGEN
I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfe...
CANDICE BERGEN
Typically, terrorist attacks produce a rally-around-the flag effect as was the case after 9/11 and t...
PETER BERGEN
The hard reality is that attacks by vehicles in public places are very hard to defend against in a f...
PETER BERGEN
The thing that's very puzzling to somebody who's been in Pakistan repeatedly since 1983 is l...
PETER BERGEN
Anne Richard, a senior U.S. State Department official, testified at a Senate Homeland Security Commi...
PETER BERGEN
I've been performing since I was very little, about three years old. I was inspired at first by ...
ERICH BERGEN
It is hard to imagine two more final endings to the 'war on terror' than the popular revolts...
PETER BERGEN
Bury the shit when you can and fess up if you can't.
MARGAUX BERGEN
I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'...
POLLY BERGEN
I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
EDGAR BERGEN
What keeps [friends] together? Common history, some shared conquests, a delight in ideas and people ...
MARGAUX BERGEN
Friends with whom you seriously fall out are death. Sometimes it will be completely your fault that ...
MARGAUX BERGEN
The special reverence that al Qaeda had for Sheikh Rahman was underlined by a two-hour propaganda vi...
PETER BERGEN
In Yemen, the United States conducted more drone strikes in 2016 than any year except 2012, the peak...
PETER BERGEN
Bin Laden was intelligent, well-informed, and low key. The people around him treated him with great ...
PETER BERGEN
To think that this was once Happy Valley.
EDGAR BERGEN
We had to have a star each week... Possibly our program being on Sunday and having a little fun with...
EDGAR BERGEN
Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.
EDGAR BERGEN
An intelligence officer and historian, Rayburn published a 2014 book, 'Iraq After America,' ...
PETER BERGEN
We expect to focus on the specific circumstances of the Pensacola accident, as opposed to an overall...
KATHLEEN BERGEN
We expect to focus on the specific circumstances of the Pensacola accident, as opposed to an overall...
KATHLEEN BERGEN
With the air traffic controllers' contract negotiations pending, no date has been set for future dep...
KATHLEEN BERGEN
Many airports operate very safely without an ASDE system,
KATHLEEN BERGEN
For an entire fleet to have to remain on the ground is unusual, but keep in mind that this fleet is ...
KATHLEEN BERGEN
The accident has to be completely investigated.
KATHLEEN BERGEN
He left behind his cowboy boots and luggage but he came back and the police were there.
KATHLEEN BERGEN
We never saw the plane on radar or had any contact with the aircraft.
KATHLEEN BERGEN
Of course, anyone who is planning to go to the impacted airports will not be going there and, other ...
KATHLEEN BERGEN
It is a complex airplane and someone would have to be an experienced pilot to fly that type of aircr...
KATHLEEN BERGEN
The station was operating on a backup transmitter that they don't normally use, and that was creatin...
KATHLEEN BERGEN
The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone...
POLLY BERGEN
America has not traditionally been the cramped, frightened country of Trump's executive order th...
PETER BERGEN
The documentary feature film 'Legion of Brothers' tells the stories of the handful of U.S. S...
PETER BERGEN
'Jersey Boys' was a lot of running around and a lot of energy, but it was more stylized move...
ERICH BERGEN
My dad grew up in Pittsburgh in the '50s, and he used to sing Four Seasons songs on the stoop. H...
ERICH BERGEN
Will there be a political backlash against British Prime Minister Theresa May, whose ruling Conserva...
PETER BERGEN
I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so l...
CANDICE BERGEN
I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
CANDICE BERGEN
As a person, I'm just really kitchy and corny, and I love '70s variety shows.
ERICH BERGEN