Philip Kearny Quotes
I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and not being an actor's son. I never knew whether it was good or bad.
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I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.
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Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track.
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I don't feel like a 27-year-old; I feel I am way mature than someone that age.
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I wear my lines like a soldier wears his medals. They've been earned. They've been fought for - so there's no reason to be ashamed of them. In your 50s, you just care less about that sort of thing. I think it's to do with what's inside you. You can't obsess about the outside.
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The free individual has been justified as his own master; the state as his servant.
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Just being from where I'm from, a little small town, I feel like I'm a good judge of character.
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Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of having caused the fall of the human race. Woman thou art the gate of the devil. It is thou who hast corrupted those whom Satan dare not attack face to face.
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I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.
