Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I would love to do some theater.
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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.
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I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.
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I love helping out good people who are doing good things.
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
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Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).
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My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
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There are two outstanding issues in democratic politics these days. One is the relationship with the media, which is now 24/7, and operates with a completely different intensity than even 15 or 20 years ago. How do we have a proper conversation between leaders and country when it's moderated sometimes in a very partisan and inflammatory way? And the second thing is the effectiveness of our democracy. How do we get the right gene and talent pool in politics?
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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
