Douglas MacArthur Quotes
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Quotes to Explore
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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I try to lead by example.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately.
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It's very irresponsible to deny the reality of a problem to see whether it might stop existing.
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.
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Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
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There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.
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Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
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It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
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I feel better all day if I start off by eating healthy. Breakfast is simple: multigrain toast with natural peanut butter, oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, or healthy cereal.
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When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.
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Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
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History is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back!
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If someone asked me about the most effective way to take political action, I would not counsel them to do that first. … What I will say is that when things like that happen, I’m not going to go back in retrospect and tell those people that they were wrong. The way people cry out is always going to be diverse.
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My feeling about seeing the world is that its going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
