John Abizaid Quotes
We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.
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It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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You just remember back when you were watching as a kid and going, 'Man, Sting's so cool,' and now I'm wrestling the guy. It's breathtaking.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
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Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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I love my work. It's been good to me.
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Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are.
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She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.
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I'm not particularly interested in my phone. I'm interested in human contact. I think phones have created a certain social incapacity; it's made people socially deficient.
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Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.
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We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.
