John Abizaid Quotes
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
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Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
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We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
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I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.
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Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
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I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.
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Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
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I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
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Quark-antiquark collisions cannot be realized directly since free quarks are not available. The closest substitute is to use collisions between protons and antiprotons.
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My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.
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I think the issues around diversity of all kinds are really a huge problem in the startup world.
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Sometimes we need to speak oddly to see clearly.
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What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.
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What one heart finds hard to believe, a hundred find easy.
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It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work.
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Our forces will not be on the sidelines.
