H. R. McMaster Quotes
You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires.
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What guides us is children's response, their joy in learning to dance, to sing, to live together. It should be a guide to the whole world.
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I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers -
The neighbors hate me.
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I always try and take something from each job.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
