David Hackworth Quotes
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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I commit words to paper and the Internet for everyone to pick apart, so I think I tend to be a lot more cynical and dulled.
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It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them.
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In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.
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Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' is where I got the title 'Momentary Masters.'
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That's me, I'm emotional.
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Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.
