Martin Van Creveld Quotes

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.

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• While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.

  

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• I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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• The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

  

  Karen Hughes
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• At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

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• I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.

  

  Larry Wilcox
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• Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.

  

  Hannah Storm
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• The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.

  

  Barry Diller
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• I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

  

  Manuel Puig
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• Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.

  

  J. R. Smith
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• My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

  

  T Bone Burnett
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• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
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• At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

  

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• In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

  

  Saint Augustine
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• My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

  

  Danica McKellar
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• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

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• Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.

  

  Venus Williams
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• I am 100% proud Puerto Rican but have lived two-thirds of my life in the United States. So, there will be some things I write in English, but my main way of conversing with my audience is in Spanish because, at the end of the day, I'm a Latino.

  

  Luis Fonsi
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• Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination makes it almost unavoidable.

  

  Rachel Hartman
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• You get one life. And if you make the mistake of choosing a profession that doesn't enrich anybody but you, you wont even live that one

  

  Umair Haque
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• I believe that none of us are fully free when others in the human family remain shackled by poverty or disease or oppression.

  

  Barack Obama
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• I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

  

  Al Pacino
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• Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.

  

  Martin Van Creveld
  • People
  • Great
  • War