Elliot Ackerman Quotes
When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
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Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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Being a woman has always been a powerful thing, where history has sometimes dictated otherwise, but I believe that a woman can be compassionate, sensitive, soft, kind.
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Philadelphia is a depressing intellectual slum.
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When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.
