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Born on November 17th

Discover quotes and deep life insights from authors, creators, and leaders born on November 17th. Enjoy their wisdom and share their quotes.

Quotes by Authors Born Today (166)

"Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces."

Barry Mccaffrey
Topic: Motivation

"I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does."

Barry Mccaffrey
Topic: Wisdom

"What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs."

Barry Mccaffrey
Topic: Motivation

"We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason."

Barry Mccaffrey
Topic: Wisdom

"So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors."

Barry Mccaffrey
Topic: Wisdom

"If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children."

Barry Mccaffrey
Topic: Wisdom

"Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing."

Barry Mccaffrey
Topic: Mindfulness

"The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent."

Barry Mccaffrey
Topic: Wisdom

"You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship."

Daisy Fuentes
Topic: Love

"I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey."

Daisy Fuentes
Topic: Wisdom

"To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person."

Daisy Fuentes
Topic: Wisdom

"I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is."

Daisy Fuentes
Topic: Wisdom

"I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!"

Daisy Fuentes
Topic: Creativity

"I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes."

Daisy Fuentes
Topic: Wisdom

"I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character."

Daisy Fuentes
Topic: Wisdom

"Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents."

Daisy Fuentes
Topic: Wisdom

"When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it."

Daisy Fuentes
Topic: Motivation

"It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do."

Daisy Fuentes
Topic: Wisdom

"You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place."

Daisy Fuentes
Topic: Wisdom

"I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV."

Daisy Fuentes
Topic: Wisdom

"I love to feel glamourous. I love to have other women feel glamourous."

Daisy Fuentes
Topic: Love

"I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style."

Daisy Fuentes
Topic: Wisdom

"TV is my first love and I haven't disappeared from it totally."

Daisy Fuentes
Topic: Love

"I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for."

Daisy Fuentes
Topic: Wisdom

"And right away as soon as I started doing Pilates, about 2 to 3 weeks into it I could tell that my clothes were already fitting differently. And I felt stronger than ever. My core felt tighter than ever."

Daisy Fuentes
Topic: Motivation

"Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet."

Gary Kovacs
Topic: Wisdom

"I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share."

Gary Kovacs
Topic: Wisdom

"The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data."

Gary Kovacs
Topic: Wisdom

"Flash content is the most prolific content on the web today; it is the way people express themselves on the Internet."

Gary Kovacs
Topic: Wisdom

"The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street."

Gary Kovacs
Topic: Motivation
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