Douglas MacArthur Quotes

I came out of Bataan and I shall return!

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• The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Movie
  • Day
  • Fire

• I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Mean

• In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Animals
  • London
  • Elephant

• The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Good
  • Important
  • Family

• Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Best

• I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • School
  • Friends
  • Happy

• There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Quality
  • Difference
  • More

• I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Never
  • Lazy
  • Vote

• The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Mind
  • Best
  • Body

• I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Influence

• Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • House
  • Player
  • Feel

• 'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Journey

• I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Live
  • Taken

• The average person tells a few white lies.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Person
  • Lies
  • White

• They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Dream

• The only possible solution which will preserve Germany’s honor and Germany’s interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia.

  

  Karl Marx
  • War
  • Honor

• If they don't let us in through the front? We'll come through the side!

  

  Eminem
  • Come
  • Side
  • Let

• In French there is an old expression, 'la patte', meaning the artist's touch, his personal style, his 'paw'. I wanted to get away from la patte and all that retinal painting.

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Style
  • Painting

• That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Success
  • Achieve

• The filibuster is used more aggressively, so I think doing each individual appropriations bill through regular order would be a home run. But I think that we should try to hit a few singles.

  

  Brian Schatz
  • Home

• Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp

• When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is also my interest. From this it becomes clear that "my" interest and "your" interest are intimately connected. In a deep sense, they converge.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Reality
  • Deep

• I came out of Bataan and I shall return!

  

  Douglas MacArthur