Bernard Law Montgomery Quotes
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
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Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
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I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.
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Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.
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We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.
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Your photography is a record of your living - for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other people's ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will have eventually to free yourself of them. That is what Nietzche meant when he said, 'I have just read Schopenhauer, now I have to get rid of him.' He knew how insidious other people's ways could be, particularly those which have the forcefulness of profound experience, if you let them get between you and your own personal vision.
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The cold war is over; Japan won.
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If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.