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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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
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I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
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You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.
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The government and the opposition need to think about their people, if they actually went out and saw the conditions in which their people are living, it might actually mean that they would pause and think again about the importance of peace.
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Relieving the risk of a nuclear conflict with Iran diplomatically is superior than trying to do that militarily.
