David McCullough Quotes
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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I am not honest.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
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As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor did I know in those days that that's what it was but I did feel different from other people.
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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.
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Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.
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You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
