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

  

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• Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.

  

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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.'

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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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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• 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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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• The world is me and I am the world.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• My Levis split and my bollocks fell out. I had no idea at first.

  

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• I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.

  

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• Differentiation of treatment is not motivated by the difference of value of the two races, but of the fundamental difference of their respective natures.

  

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• I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

  

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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