David Hackworth Quotes
That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I am not honest.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
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The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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God does arithmetic.
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I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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In our family health, it's about having a balanced life, about laughing and staying on a positive note.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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My face hasn't matured as I've grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.
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My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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And the bottom line is, is that they are illegal aliens entering our country. And we simply cannot sustain that kind of activity. Bottom line is it's a backdoor to amnesty and I don't believe the American people support that.
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At home, I warm milk, stir in two teaspoons of honey, and drink it in a teacup. It's so basic yet pure; I love it.
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I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
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That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!
