James Longstreet Quotes
My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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A leaderless but powerful network is working to bring about radical changes in the United States. Its members have broken with certain key elements of Western thought, and they may even have broken continuity with history... this benign conspiracy for new human agenda has triggered the most rapid cultural realignment in history.
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No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.
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My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.
