Douglas Haig Quotes
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
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One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
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I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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Real luxury is customization.
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No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?
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I love black truffles. I love white truffles.
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We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.
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The legacy of the Freddie Gray unrest? I think that remains to be determined.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.
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I like to play by my own rules.
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From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.
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Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!
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Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
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The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble... We want to buy them when they're on the operating table. 'Homespun Wisdom from the 'Oracle of Omaha'' Businessweek (5 July 1999)
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I try and play 2 or 3 times a week to stay on my game.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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I got a horror film, 'The Burning,' and suddenly I was making crazy money, like a thousand a week, so I moved into an apartment on Amsterdam with a guy who was also in 'The Burning,' Jason Alexander.
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In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.
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Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
