Eric Shinseki Quotes
I am an armor officer. I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s. It's still a magnificent tank, and we designed it for the Cold War and Central Europe.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.
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It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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Relationships are hard, so you have to know what type of man you want by your side and what their values are, what is important in his life.
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Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, both in the taking of the pictures and in their presentation.
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There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.
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I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.
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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
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I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.
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Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
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Every so often, when I am feeling plucky, I try to write a screenplay that combines all 10 of Americans' top phobias and market it as a sleeper hit.
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My job as governor is different from the legislators. They represent their districts. I have to represent all 6.6 million Tennesseans and come to the best decisions I can.
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Very early in my career, I thought I had to conform to one style of leadership - lead by being the loudest one in the room, with the sharpest elbows.
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It'd be great to do some other TV. 'Breaking Bad' is definitely my home, but I'd love to have a nice hiatus gig, like a recurring role. Or to do a good film. I'd like to do a Woody Allen movie. I really didn't have a plan, and that's okay with me.
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The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral.
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Your history does not need to define your destiny.
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And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.
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I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama.
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The Bush administration will go down in history as the Torture Team.
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I am an armor officer. I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s. It's still a magnificent tank, and we designed it for the Cold War and Central Europe.
