Douglas MacArthur Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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I don't learn in a certain way, but I have other skills.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It's my go-to breakfast.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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The score never interested me, only the game.
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I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
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I'll watch anything, from action to art films.
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I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.
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We're a rock group. We're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird.
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I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that's fine, I don't mind, I've developed a thick skin.
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When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well.
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I would say that I have been consistent in my broad view of how American power should be deployed, and the view that we underestimate our power when we restrict it to just our military power. We shortchange our influence and our ability to shape events when that's the only tool we think we have in the toolbox.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
