Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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I'm not a Republican.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.
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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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Research on the Internet, research what people say about the vintage stores, look online to see if customer service is good because that's really important. Also to see online what other customers say.
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Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.
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I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.
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I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a general. George Bush senior. I haven't met Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, although I got a letter from him.
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One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on these shores by the Puritan John Winthrop, via the Gospel according to Saint Matthew.
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I just love comedy, and I honestly believe that laughter transcends everything. If everyone laughed together, laughed more, it would unite the world in peace.
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Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
