Duke of Wellington Quotes

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

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• You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Sports
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• Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Important
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• Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Leader
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• I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
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• Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

  

  Mae West
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• While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.

  

  Ted Nugent
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• It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
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• I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.

  

  Sally Schneider
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• Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Reputation

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
  • Kind
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• Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Parents
  • Struggle
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• I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Fashion
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• My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Mother
  • Taken
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• When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
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  • Trying

• I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Pretty
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• Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Movies
  • Only
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• I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Experienced
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• Given the number of restaurants I have, I could easily travel all the time - but I try not to.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Time
  • Travel

• I have a huge scarf from Hermes that I bought the day I signed my record deal. I had never had an Hermes scarf. And I ran to buy one, thinking, 'Now, this is a symbol, I need one, I need an Hermes scarf,' which actually now I'm quite embarrassed about. Most of the time I twist it so much that no one notices it, and just bundle it around me.

  

  Lou Doillon
  • Time
  • Thinking

• It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

  

  Francis Maude
  • Rain

• I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.

  

  Amelie Nothomb
  • Life
  • Country
  • Happy

• All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

  

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