Eric Shinseki Quotes
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
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Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
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The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.
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I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.
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You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.
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Did you ever have the police follow you for so long, that you get suspicious about your own goddamn self? Maybe I did kill them people.
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It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.
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Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!
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An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.
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I think what motivated me was just hope. Something inside of me, deep down in my guts, always felt like there was something in there.
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A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that.
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Jesus said, "Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). We must honestly face the question, "Am I willing to give up a certain practice or habit that is keeping me from holiness?" It is at this point of commitment that most of us fail. We prefer to dally with sin, to try to play with it a little without getting too deeply involved.
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So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
