Matt Gallagher Quotes
The American war-writing tradition is a proud one and booming in this era of the Global War on Terror - at least in the nonfiction realm. Hundreds of memoirs and press accounts from Iraq and Afghanistan have been published since 9/11.Matt Gallagher
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
Barbara Demick -
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
Ed Koch -
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
Ioan Gruffudd -
I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
Mandy Patinkin
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
L'Wren Scott -
My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
Karin Slaughter -
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.
Wayne Knight -
World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
Harry Browne -
In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
Padgett Powell
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
Adam Davidson -
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
Malcolm Gladwell -
People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
Walter Gropius -
I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Jack Black
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
Wendell Pierce -
We foolishly did not realize Saddam was stupid.
April Glaspie -
They're all big (games) for us. We have 10 home games, three road games and we feel like we have to win really a high majority of those games to finish where we have to finish if we want to go forward to gain momentum for the playoffs.
Phil Jackson -
My dad and uncles were among the 125,000 proud black American volunteers who, throughout their entire lives, considered their decision to serve during WWII as their greatest honor.
Burgess Owens -
The American war-writing tradition is a proud one and booming in this era of the Global War on Terror - at least in the nonfiction realm. Hundreds of memoirs and press accounts from Iraq and Afghanistan have been published since 9/11.
Matt Gallagher