Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
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Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
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It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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I'm not a divorce monger by any means, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown apart, it's not healthy for a couple to stay together. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.
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By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
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The Lakers have been nothing but great to me, and I want to keep the relationship great.
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I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow.
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When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.
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Grand economic theories rarely last more than a few decades. Some, if they are particularly in tune with technological or political events, may make it to half a century. Beyond that, little short of military force can keep them in place.
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Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
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I paint stupid things; that's what I do. I can't think of anything more boring than a really beautiful thing. You have to mess it up. There has to be something a little kinky to keep their attention.
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Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends.
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Marriage isn't meant to make you happy - it's there because it gives you a life in which you can find happiness.
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Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
