H. R. McMaster Quotes
It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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One has to wonder what Donald Trump will say next as he ramps up his anti-Muslim bigotry. Where is there left for him to go? Are we talking internment camps? Are we talking the final solution to the Muslim question? I feel like I'm back in the 1930s.
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I love so many styles of music.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I always like to sing barefoot.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.
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When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.
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The important thing is to get yourself born. You’re entitled to that. But you’re not entitled to life. Because if you were entitled to life, then the life would have to be quantified. How many years? Seventy? Sixty? Shakespeare was dead at fifty-two. Keats was dead at twenty-six. Thomas Chatterton at seventeen.
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In my grandfather's day, there was a different perspective on war and men that went into war; it was such a patriotic act to fight for your country in the Forties.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.
