I was studying International Relations at Columbia when 9/11 happened, and it made me want understand the security dynamics of the world. I had been more focused on soft power issues - understanding different cultures and such - but once 9/11 happened, I felt like I didn't know anything about security problems.
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Related I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and ... TEA LEONI When 9/11 happened, LINCOLN CHAFEE Security has been of prime importance for us on the materials front and the power plant front since ... DAVID MCINTYRE I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's ... AMY WALDMAN We offered off-site check-in before 9/11, but the Transportation Security Agency shut it down after ... DAVID BOURGON I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I... TED CRUZ People are looking like I was responsible for 9/11. Me 9/11? Seven-Eleven, maybe. AZHAR USMAN When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/1... JEFF LEMIRE I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, b... BILL BURR I've been in this business for ten years and I've seen it several times. I was around when 9/11 happ... DIANE SLOAN The reason for the Department of Homeland Security was counter-terrorism. Everybody was focused on h... JAMES LOY When you hear that date, it just can't help but jog your memory. You hear 9/11, it just makes you th... ADAM TIMMERMAN When 9-11 happened, our listeners were so generous, wanting to help and do anything they could, KIM ALLEN Since 9/11, (security) has taken on new dimensions that they didn't have before. There are many diff... BOB WATTERS I don't know what happened over the span of the 10-minute halftime. It was like I had put 11 differe... JENNIFER TRUMAN It's amazing how strongly we all felt after what happened to this country on 9/11, DON BARNETT I was not 9/11 material, but a wanna-be post-9/11 terrorist, ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that sil... DOUGLAS COUPLAND They were wonderful about it, and it gave us a chance to go back and study some of the security cost... ERIC LAND We have drastically improved port and cargo security since 9/11. KRISTI CLEMENS While (Hurricane Katrina) is more devastating that 9/11 and (brought) far wider destruction and disl... BRIAN GOODMAN I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It ... DANIEL DENNETT It happened during 9-11 and it happens just about every time there's a hurricane on the way in Flori... LARRY ANDERSON The academy has been dealing with the issue of scientific openness versus national security since 9/... BILL KEARNEY I was an Army intelligence agent and a veteran during the Cold War, assigned to West Germany. I was ... JIM GILMORE I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforce... DICK CHENEY [K. Jack Riley, a homeland security expert at Rand Corp., said hardened cockpit doors, air marshals ... JACK RILEY Ever since 9/11, our intelligence agencies, as part of the 'war on terror,' have expanded th... BOB BECKEL When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just h... JASPER FFORDE I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man. BILLY GRAHAM There is no evidence to indicate that the FAA recognized Flight 77 as a hijacking until it crashed i... NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORIST ATTACKS UPON THE UNITED STATES A release on September 16 quoted the claim of the assistant secretary for labor at OSHA that tests s... NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORIST ATTACKS UPON THE UNITED STATES The records available for the phone calls from American 77 do not allow for a determination of which... NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORIST ATTACKS UPON THE UNITED STATES ...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin... LEMMY KILMISTER To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer ... ANN PATCHETT People are looking at me like I'm responsible for 9/11. Me? 9/11? No ... 7-Eleven, maybe. AZHAR USMAN Clearly, additional security has been burdensome for all companies that require security post 9/11. ... ERIC LAND 'Emeril' came on the air right when a new president of NBC was taking over, and there was ju... CARRIE PRESTON Bush benefits from [talk of terrorism and leadership]. He was president when 9/11 happened, and he r... ALEC LAMIS When I look at the world, I recognize that unfortunately, it sometimes takes an atrocity like 9/11 t... VING RHAMES Hijacking before 9/11 and hijacking after 9/11 mean two very different things. CONDOLEEZZA RICE We were blazing. Six months after we opened, 9/11 happened. BRUCE SMITH You don't want to pretend that 9/11 ended in 2002 with the first anniversary. So how do you fram... JAKE BARTON Since 9/11, a homeland security product has the potential to be very lucrative. I know people in the... COLLEEN MCCUE The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrori... DICK CHENEY Standing out there in th dark, I felt many different things. One of them was pride in my fellow Amer... JOHN GROGAN I feel like there has been a loss of urgency since 9/11. GREG BARONI I remember, after 'Tumbleweeds,' my friend and I wrote 'Pride and Glory.' I was just... GAVIN O'CONNOR At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I ... DAN STEVENS 2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S... MATT TAIBBI I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting ... ROBERT MUELLER Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that... REBA MCENTIRE I was not aware of any 9/11 (connection). DAVID HORNER I think the U.S. was so insular in the 1990s, and I don't know if it was 9/11, but there was somethi... GEOFFREY GILMORE I spent the last 4 1/2 years trying to show we need to increase security and decrease the dependency... KRISTEN BREITWEISER I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly c... TUPAC SHAKUR Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savager... KARL ROVE There is research on the effects of 9/11, and you know, compared to the enormity of it, it didn'... DANIEL KAHNEMAN When we spoke, he told me, 'The Newsweek thing has changed the world.' And I said, 'Wasn't it 9/11 t... ALBERT BROOKS When I was studying comedy in Chicago, it wasn't long after 9/11. There were a lot Middle Easter... KUMAIL NANJIANI The rules have changed, post-9/11. We have seen some real tightening of security and for all the rig... HARRY WHITE After 9/11, security cooperation with Australia became essential - it's part of the grand defense st... KUSNANTO ANGGORO Private-sector preparedness is not a luxury; it is a cost of doing business in the post-9/11 world. ... THE 9 11 COMMISSION REPORT What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people... DAVID LEVITHAN We're not falling to the ground in an instant like the towers did, but it's like the most important ... WENDY MILLS I don't want to be callous about it, but we all seemed to get over the Oklahoma bombing pretty q... DANIEL WOODRELL When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world. MARILYN MONROE On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre. ANDRE LEON TALLEY 'Miss Jackson' is about something that actually happened to me when I was younger. I hadn... BRENDON URIE I don't know what it is that they are doing. I certainly know that they didn't do a good job of thwa... LORIE VAN AUKEN I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because i... TED ALLEN I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United Stat... ALICE WALKER Mike said he was already thinking of going on active duty, but after 9/11, he felt that he had to do... JUDY TAYLOR I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even t... ADAM MICHNIK It was a long, difficult summer of 2004. That was a leap year, so several things happened - the Olym... MICHAEL HAYDEN You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I fel... MIRA NAIR Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got... BRUCE STERLING There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration i... BOB GRAHAM The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made t... LEONARD BOSWELL I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summ... JOANNE WOODWARD The planes were hijacked, the buildings fell, and thousands of lives were lost nearly a thousand mil... TOM HARKIN I will never make a movie about any of the events of 9/11. STEVEN SPIELBERG In June 2002, I had just finished 'Laurel Canyon' and decided to move back to Los Angeles af... LISA CHOLODENKO Since 9/11, for the first time, average door-to-door travel speed has really dropped substantially d... CARL DIETRICH What happened unfortunately for John is that the United States made an abrupt change after the 9/11 ... FRANK LINDH Our international enrollment did not drop after 9/11. CYNTHIA GREEN The nation has moved on far more than a lot of the families have, which for us is difficult to see, ... CHRISTIE COOMBS Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11. MICHAEL MOORE I never felt I had anything to hide. I never felt being gay was anything to be ashamed of, so I neve... MARTINA NAVRATILOVA Even after 9/11, when their life-saving role became clear, employers have dragged their feet on rais... ERIC ADAMS Broadcasting through 9/11 together, like Katie Couric and I did, creates a bond. MATT LAUER I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ri... KATE MOSS He skillfully guided the airport through massive building and expansion projects, strict security me... FRANK COMMISSO The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the ... GARY WRIGHT Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savager... KARL ROVE Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and im... JIM RAMSTAD We had one similar experience with 9/11. That was a matter of hours, but it was more intense, obviou... CRAIG NEWMARK When I made it, I still didn't wave the flag and say, Yeah go Asian people. I do want people to ... CHAD HUGO When I saw him after 9/11, he was the quietest I'd ever seen him. But he's generally incredibly upbe... STEVEN SPINOLA The organizers of the International Freedom Center say that in order to understand 9/11, we must see... MICHAEL BURKE
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ELLEN BURSTYN Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate t... ELLEN BURSTYN I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I ha... ELLEN BURSTYN She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the fi... ELLEN BURSTYN It's a sin to have your films not to make money. ELLEN BURSTYN They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for ... ELLEN BURSTYN I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are peo... ELLEN BURSTYN It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago an... ELLEN BURSTYN The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you w... ELLEN BURSTYN I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have ... 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