Martin Van Creveld Quotes
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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The idea that spiritual growth begins with discomfort is a fact many church members and church leaders have been unwilling or unable to embrace.
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The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.
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The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.
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Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.
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I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.
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A world without war is not in the cards.
