Chester W. Nimitz Quotes
The war with Japan had been enacted in the game rooms at the War College by so many people and in so many different ways that nothing that happened during the war was a surprise-absolutely nothing except the kamikaze tactics toward the end of the war. We had not visualized these.
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I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.
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To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.
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I'm not a party person. I'm a nerd. I'm not an extrovert in that way at all. The things I enjoy doing could be boring to somebody else.
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If you really want to be able to express what goes on with other people, you have to be able to look at them and empathize with them and not judge who they are and what they do.
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I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.
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The war with Japan had been enacted in the game rooms at the War College by so many people and in so many different ways that nothing that happened during the war was a surprise-absolutely nothing except the kamikaze tactics toward the end of the war. We had not visualized these.
