Sebastian Junger Quotes
People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.
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I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.
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I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.
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Spector is a good guy, but he's a nut. Ha, ha, ha! You know, I love him, but he's unpredictable. He's OK as long as he don't drink.
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Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
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I really do believe we can stuff enough algorithms in a movie that only the dedicated hackers can spend the time and effort to try to plumb through those 1,000 algorithms to try to find a way to beat it.
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It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.
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There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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It is important that the right of Israel to exist should be respected and also the viable Palestinian authorities, in terms of political and financial situation, be supported so that both can live side by side in peace and security. That is a two-state solution.
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I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.
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Use only things you find around the bathroom to create something. Extra credit: make it in the bathroom!
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People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.
