Chuck Hagel Quotes
I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the beach, but not me.
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For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.
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When you're on TV in America, the girls love you. I'm not complaining.
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To be honest I see protectionism around the world rising rather than more liberalization.
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Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.
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I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.
