Gabriel Kolko Quotes
Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.
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We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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I think, because of the lack of guaranteed contracts in the league, there's hesitancy to speaking your minds at times. But I feel like there could be a movement beginning where guys are feeling a little more comfortable talking about things that are important to them.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
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Happiness isn't a state, it's a skill. It's the skill of knowing how to take what life throws your way and make the most of it.
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If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.
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Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies.
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I think that shows a level of maturity and understanding that I think bodes well for getting to the bottom of this. But it is really up to you and your staff, on behalf of the American people, to take on that challenge.
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I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and then suddenly having it - and getting on planes and going to Ibiza and sitting around in thongs. But actually nothing I was writing or doing was even vaguely Thatcherite.
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Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.
