Bernard Cornwell Quotes
'You know how to deal with senior officers?' 'Respectfully.' 'Confuse them. Except for the ones who can't be confused, like Wellington.'
Quotes to Explore
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.
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I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
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When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
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I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
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Government is waging war against the people.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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CrossFit is just another thing I've become passionate about. I like to continue to make gains and compete with myself. There's many ways to do that either with adding weight or competing with my own times or my previous records. It's been nothing but a benefit to me, and I love lifting weights.
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I want to prove to my fans that I am beyond candy floss roles and item numbers.
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I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to.
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I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.
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Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.
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Having admitted that he did wrong, there's still the critical question, 'Do we want to launch the single most serious constitutional process that our system contemplates?' And the answer to that, in my view, is no.
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'You know how to deal with senior officers?' 'Respectfully.' 'Confuse them. Except for the ones who can't be confused, like Wellington.'
