Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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• Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

  

  Rachel Dratch
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• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  

  Ted Allen
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• Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

  

  Kal Penn
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• Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

  

  Tamara Tunie
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• Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

  

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• My job is to help more people have jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
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• As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
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• There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

  

  J. L. Austin
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• Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Women
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• Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
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  • Growing

• Several southern actors are coming to Mumbai. Likewise, many Bollywood actors are appearing down South or borrowing ideas from southern films.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Ideas
  • Down
  • Borrowing

• I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Why
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• I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Time
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  • Test

• There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
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• I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.

  

  Laura Mvula
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  • Liking

• I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Kingdom Authority is the God-given mandate of Christians to exercise control over the world in the name of Jesus and under His oversight.

  

  Adrian Rogers
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• Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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• I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
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• Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Important
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• Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • War
  • Future
  • Peace

• All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war.

  

  Norman Schwarzkopf
  • War
  • Dying
  • Soldier