Martin Dempsey Quotes
ISIL is inspiring groups that already exist to rebrand themselves, but in rebranding themselves into a more radical ideology. That's what makes it dangerous.
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Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
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We all want to be the sexy girl.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost instantly, the flip side. You have this terrible, terrible anxiety that you've just taken your last good picture.
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You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
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We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
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Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.
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I did the Vines first, and then I chose Instagram because the filters were better, and you could post the best picture of yourself, which I figured would help my modeling career.
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I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.
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I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.
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So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
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I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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There came one who spoke of the shame of Jerusalem And the holy places defiled; Peter the Hermit, scourging with words. And among his hearers were a few good men, Many who were evil, And most who were neither, Like all men in all places.
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He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.
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I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
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Passions are generally roused from great conflict.
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Lucky fools do not bear the slightest suspicion that they may be lucky fools - by definition, they do not know that they belong to such a category.
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No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
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When you're reading, like, a character's thoughts, or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me, that's what the whole point of fiction is.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.
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ISIL is inspiring groups that already exist to rebrand themselves, but in rebranding themselves into a more radical ideology. That's what makes it dangerous.
