John Abizaid Quotes
But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I love books.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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I love Channing Tatum!
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.
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Nothing gets me more nervous than white people who talk black.......I mean, it's fun on 'Ricki Lake', but in real life......
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A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
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I would watch films like 'Frances Ha' and 'The Squid and the Whale,' and wonder why we weren't making these beautiful slice-of-life movies. Then I thought, 'Why am I not doing it?'
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But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times.
