Martin Van Creveld Quotes
Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.
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I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.
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Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.
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Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.
