Sebastian Junger Quotes
The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
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Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
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While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.
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Not that I took it as a fiasco at the time, but no one saw 'Almost Famous' in the theaters,
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We had a tough time narrowing it down to what we have.
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I'm playing every day. I still want to win.
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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
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I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.
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I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.
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To fight like we fought the majority of the game and then for that to happen to us with 4.9 seconds on the clock is just devastating.
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Politically, Donald Trump doesn't seem to care much about what he says. He gauges the effect. Sometimes, in the middle of a speech, he will change his direction if the audience doesn't like him.
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I spend most of my time writing.
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All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
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In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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You have to stop living in order to write.
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But the burns were like the fingerprints of an older time—before Ziegler and his brethren decided that traditional sources of value were merely superstition. “Those thousands of generations of technical progress” obliterated ritual, emptied out all meaning, glossolalia without divinity. I decided that’s what the painted mother foresaw, that she was saying farewell to candlelight, that she knew she was trapped inside a painting addressed to the future, where it could only be, however great, an instance of technique.
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Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?
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The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened there yesterday; whereas for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterise everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment.
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The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.
