Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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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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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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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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Algunas cosas se hacen tan nuestras que las olvidamos.
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Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
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I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.
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You could use many adjectives to describe Silicon Valley; I don't think 'normal' is one of them.
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War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.
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I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job.
