David Hackworth Quotes
Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.

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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
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I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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We all know what it's like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.
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The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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I was actually really sick of being a broke actress with a toddler, so I wrote a script.
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People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold!
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I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.
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I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'
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It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.
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Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.