John Abizaid Quotes
Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time, people talk and they tell us what they know.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
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I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.
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Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.
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The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.
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I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.
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None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.
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It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
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By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.
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Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.
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I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
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Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time, people talk and they tell us what they know.
