George C. Marshall Quotes
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
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I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
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I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.
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I have really fond memories of growing up in Chicago, and I always love going back. I still have a lot of really good friends from high school that I go to dinner with. It's kind of become a tradition when I go out there to do a show to give a few friends a call, tell some funny stories about high school and walk down memory lane.
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I'm not here to win a popularity contest.
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Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
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Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
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Good breeding doesn't mean that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice when someone else does.
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Credit is an 'I love debt' score.
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Most entertainment careers aren't going to end in fame.
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When you finish a record, I look at it like a photograph. It's already taken. You got it the way you wanted it to be. You edit it, make sure the light and contrast are right, then you just put it away, and that's your photograph. Then you don't really think about it anymore.
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Coming to Paris has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel hate or love.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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I will give you the best I have.
