David Hackworth Quotes
Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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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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Downloading songs is not good.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.
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I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.
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Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.
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I can also be very happy in this life, but it's usually happiness that I get from other lives I've lived and other dimensions. This life is hardly important to me. It's very small compared to the importance that I think the fourth and fifth dimension have. Those places are much more real to me, like when you have a dream and it's more real to you than real life. Compared to where I'll be going, this life seems like a dream that just feels like a dream.
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It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.
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Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.
