Erwin Rommel Quotes
The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
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I wanted to show my maturity. The criticism I got made me grow up. It motivated me.
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A 007 James Bond image is very dangerous for a central banker to have.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
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It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.
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Lies run sprints but the truth runs marathons.
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There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.
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Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.
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I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.
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I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.
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The simple truth is that the implementation of Obamacare has hurt Americans and their health care more than it has helped.
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There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her?
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There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.
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As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such.
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Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).
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When you have a young man, I mean, questioning the power in place for love of his country, not to say 'stop' but to say 'be careful about the abuse of technology,' I think it deserves to be promoted.
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In a Scottish opera, it ain't over 'till the fat lady bitch-slaps you.
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I love becoming a character outside of who I am. Even when I was a little girl, I loved make believe, so I like it.
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The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!
