George C. Marshall Quotes
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
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If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
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To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
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The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.
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We shall seek debate without division or rancour.
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When a “founding father’s” remarks about “liberty” don’t seem to make sense, substitute the word “property” and they do.
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I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.
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'Communist society'; in the sense of a society organized exclusively on that single principle—could never exist. But all social systems, even economic systems like capitalism, have always been built on top of a bedrock of actually-existing communism.
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Don't fight the problem, decide it.
