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 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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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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I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.
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I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.
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I'm an actor, and it is not for me but for the writer to offer the best role to me. For me, essaying that role to the best of my ability is more important.
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Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.
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I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
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In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.
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The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.
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I've often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. 'They're never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.' I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creatively challenged, but never to be told what to do.
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I like the idea of stopping mid-sentence, like Graham Greene.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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I will give you the best I have.
