Erwin Rommel Quotes

There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.

Erwin Rommel

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• Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

  

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• Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
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• I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.

  

  Marat Safin
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• Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
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• To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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• You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

  

  Pam Grier
  • You
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• Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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• It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.

  

  Bear Grylls
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• When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

  

  Edmund White
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• I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
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• Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

  

  Margot Fonteyn
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• The world is me and I am the world.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
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• But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
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• Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.

  

  DJ Khaled
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• I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

  

  Christopher Walken
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  • America

• Journalists run many risks. It comes with the profession.

  

  Alexandra Petri

• You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.

  

  Jamie Dornan
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• A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
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• So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Light
  • Forever
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• For a while longer you may be able to carry on with your plundering and murderous crimes, but you will not escape your ultimate fate. We shall exhaust and then destroy you in a difficult and prolonged battle. When one of us falls, there are tens of others who will rise. Our death is no ordinary death and our life no ordinary life.

  

  Ashraf Dehghani
  • Death
  • Battle
  • Crimes

• People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
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• There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Difference
  • Soldier
  • Civilian