Siegfried Sassoon Quotes
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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I get depressed at airports.
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I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.
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I believe in God.
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Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
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I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.
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It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.
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Did you ever have the police follow you for so long, that you get suspicious about your own goddamn self? Maybe I did kill them people.
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In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.
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Life is never going to be perfect, as much as we want it to be, and I have to lead by example.
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The last thing we need is efforts by some politicians and the NRA to arm educators and allow more guns in our schools.
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We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.
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Do you think the Roman soldiers thought he was the Son of God or just some goofball who got nailed to the cross? In 2000 years, we've probably made somebody who is the equivalent of Elvis into God, so I see no reason why not to believe that in 2000 years Elvis will be God.
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Be patient soldiers... uniforms on the way ..new product coming soon.
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Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
