Chuck Hagel Quotes
This is a ping-pong game with American lives. These young men and women that we put in Anbar province, in Iraq, in Baghdad, are not beans. They're real lives. And we better be damn sure we know what we're doing, all of us, before we put 22,000 more Americans into that grinder.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
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The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.
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I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.
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The visionary, industrious, Christian, and segregated black community of the early- to mid-1960s understood and embraced the importance of a positive self-perception. It was this same recognition that drove millions of young patriotic black men throughout our nation's history to be among the first to volunteer when our nation went to war.
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This is a ping-pong game with American lives. These young men and women that we put in Anbar province, in Iraq, in Baghdad, are not beans. They're real lives. And we better be damn sure we know what we're doing, all of us, before we put 22,000 more Americans into that grinder.
