Martin Van Creveld Quotes
Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
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I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
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I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.
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I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.
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I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy.
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Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
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As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself in that. I lived with the illusion, for quite a long time, that if you described something accurately, something would be done about it.
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The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.
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In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.
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Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
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The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.
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Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.
