Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
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I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
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Wherever I find love I will accept it.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to write a novel with a pervasive mood that sticks with you after you close the cover.
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Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.
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I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.
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My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.
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There are different ways that people feel like it should be done. Any way that you can add a player -- I don't care if it's a trade, the draft, free agency -- I want to be aggressive. Free agency is a place where you make fewer mistakes because you're not trying to project somebody from a college environment to the pros. You've got somebody that has already played up here and been successful.
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It did help. I didn't have to think about defense. I felt good today. I felt strong in my last at-bat.
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She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't know what to do about it. This was her life: magic and shame and secrets and teeth and a deep, nagging hollow at the center of herself where something was most certainly missing.
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I felt like I needed to get a few side projects out of my system before I settled in to do the new record. Usually what's asked of you, everything's a year cycle. When you get caught up in that cycle, it can be kind of brutal, actually. It was good I got to take a year off, with no pressure coming from anywhere.
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When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.
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You look like a normal person, if you can find a normal person who wants to look like that.
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God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.
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I should say that being independent in the modern model means independent in a very interdependent world. An independent Scotland is not apart from the rest of the United Kingdom.
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Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
