Martin Dempsey Quotes
Relieving the risk of a nuclear conflict with Iran diplomatically is superior than trying to do that militarily.
Quotes to Explore
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
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My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.
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I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
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To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.
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Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.
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I think I'm always subconsciously trying to write the ideal school play. Lots of parts for everybody, great parts for women - don't forget, more girls try out than boys in the school play; everyone gets to be in the school play.
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I think there are many experts who say, in fact, the most powerful nations on earth are more vulnerable today than the weaker nations because they're the targets of so many of these groups that are trying to steal, to buy, to build nuclear weapons.
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Relieving the risk of a nuclear conflict with Iran diplomatically is superior than trying to do that militarily.
