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When I was director of the CIA, I knew that we had been - and I'm choosing my words very carefully here - effective in our expansion. We really had - expansion of government agencies and expansion of use of contractors. Effective, we were; efficient, we weren't. And so, as director of the CIA, I went after the inefficiencies part.
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When people talk about their God, it is difficult to know what they actually mean, and when people talk about their atheism, it is usually incomprehensible also.
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When people see the guy with the panhandling sign, that's the tip of the iceberg.
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When people ask me what is an editorial cartoonist, I often say we're kind of a hybrid. We're a cross between Edward R. Morrow, Ted Koppel and the Son of Sam.
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When people are desperate to sell you buy. When they are desperate to buy you sell. He who waits until he is in the arena to plan has planned too late.
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When one guy goes down, we can't get the job done? That's why we've got backups, ... We're a team. One man can't win a football game by himself. I can't win a game by myself.
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When one does all these things to increase the attractiveness of the place, does that not drive us toward a place where only the rich are able to take advantage of it? That was a concern of ours from the very beginning. The cause is what might be called non-price sensitive demand, people that can pay virtually anything. We were thinking ahead enough to realize it would get worse very quickly. We started thinking about this in '75. It may be the most aggressive affordable housing in the country. It wasn't enough.
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When one adds art, one can reduce the overall risk to a portfolio by 10 percent to 20 percent.
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When new specifications are introduced, the market factors in the worst-case scenario, but as the new rules come into the place the market finds its own balance and prices adjust accordingly.
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When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there with her, sensing the cold grit under her instep. The details are what matter - they are the experience.
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When my editors and I at 'Rolling Stone' came up with the idea to do a profile of General McChrystal, I simply just e-mailed General McChrystal's press staff, said we wanted to do a profile, and said if you could give us any time to hang out with the general, that would be great.
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When Mr. Fisher joined Eastman Kodak, I was a shareholder with great anticipation that he would take a technological problem and make it into a technological opportunity, ... Lou Gerstner did that at IBM. I thought there was a possibility, actually a probability, that we'd get that out of George Fisher. Unfortunately it hasn't happened yet.
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When most members of a community are vaccinated, they protect those who are not by eliminating the viral reservoirs in the population. The effect is known as 'herd immunity.'
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We will go to the courts if necessary to fight it.