Don Young Quotes

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

Don Young

• War
• College
• Stress

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• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Art
  • War
  • Enemy

• The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Will
  • Islam

• Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • College

• One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
  • Country
  • Kids

• I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • College
  • English
  • Economics

• It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • War
  • Germany
  • Defeated

• He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • War
  • End

• I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • School
  • Art
  • College

• As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Long
  • Space
  • Go

• In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Money
  • Fun
  • College

• I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • College
  • Risk

• Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

  

  Garry Wills
  • War
  • Decide
  • Winners

• What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Risk
  • Neighbor

• I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Time
  • Important
  • Mind

• At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • War
  • Here
  • Combination

• We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • Job
  • Kids

• I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Doing
  • Year

• If you can't get rich dealing with politicians, there's something wrong with you.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Rich
  • Wrong
  • Politicians

• Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Doubt
  • Laugh
  • Aim

• I am growing with my audience. When I made my debut, I was 24, and they have grown up with me. They are with me with each choice of mine.

  

  Varun Dhawan
  • Up
  • Growing

• Each movie I make has its own heroes, and the two heroes for me in 'Arrival' are Amy Adams and Joe Walker, the editor. We worked very, very hard, and it was, by far, the longest editing process.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • Movie

• Difficile est, fateor, sed tendit in ardua virtuset talis meriti gratia maior erit.

  

  Ovid

• I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

  

  Don Young
  • War
  • College
  • Stress