John Abizaid Quotes
Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.
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I'm truly, 100% guided by the characters and my Muse. If one of the characters suddenly decided to do something very different, I'd just go with it. It's much easier to let the Muse drive than for me to try to steer.
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If we seek... nature, then love can be informed by truth instead of being based on ignorance or self-deception.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.
