Paul Fussell Quotes
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While immensely beneficial to Seoul, is this U.S. guarantee to fight Korean War II, 64 years after the first, wise? Russia, China and Japan retain the freedom to decide whether and how to react, should war break out. Why do we not?
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I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
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When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
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Good movies are what I wait my whole life for.
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That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.
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As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.
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Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.
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You know I won't be no stick-figure, silicone Barbie doll
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Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.
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When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.
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While they'd be setting up shots, suddenly, there were 17 make-up chicks, just listening to Marlon telling these amazing stories that were probably lies. He was a fascinating individual. I learned a lot from him.
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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
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I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.
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The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday. Who ever heard the returning traveler exclaim over one of the great motels of the world he stayed in? Motels can be big, but never grand.
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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.
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The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
