Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
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The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.
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I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.
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Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
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I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.
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The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.
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For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
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We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.
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Free trade is the serial killer of American manufacturing and the Trojan Horse of World Government. It is the primrose path to the loss of economic independence and national sovereignty. Free trade is a bright shining lie.
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I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.
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I was such a tomboy as a kid, and I'm a dancer.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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Like the Governor-General, when asked what you enjoy most about the job my tendency is to say "today", because of the insights you get into our nation and because of the privileged contact you have with so many people.
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job.
