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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I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the way to learn nature. So my travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology.
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Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
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A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't let that happen to you. You've done so much work; you've put in so much effort. Don't let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.
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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.
