Martin Dempsey Quotes
I've been in the group that believes it's in our national interest to close Guantanamo. It does create a psychological scar on our national values. Whether it should or not, it does.
Quotes to Explore
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Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.
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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.
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I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.
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I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.
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Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.
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I used to see media on Althea Flynt and she was very wild looking. She had a mohawk and she published Hustler-I thought that was crazy. But when you study her, she was so innocent and frail and sort of birdlike, and sweet. She stayed sweet until she died, but I don't know what happened for her to get into drugs or the things she got into.
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In England, success in the profession of the law leads to some very great objects of ambition; and yet how few men, born to easy fortunes, have ever in this country been emminent in that profession?
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Looking fifty is great-if you're sixty.
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To be honest, it makes you a lot better coach when your boss is in the meeting room. You're a lot more driven every day.
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For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.
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On that day I had put a ban on TV channels because they were actually provoking trouble. But it was only for one day.
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I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.
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I've been in the group that believes it's in our national interest to close Guantanamo. It does create a psychological scar on our national values. Whether it should or not, it does.
