Wilhelm Keitel Quotes
If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.
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History is not hatred.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
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To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.
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I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.
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I am a very spiritual person and love travelling to religious places. I go to the Golden Temple, Tirupati Balaji and Vaishno Devi every year.
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I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.
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And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.
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You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time!
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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Dread. Bottomless dread... I am that shadow on the threshold defending my remnant peace.
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You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'
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Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.
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I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.
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My experience of children on a film set, especially on a big film set like the 'Potter' one, is not wholly positive.
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I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.
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But the thing is, I didn't make my friends happy and they didn't make me happy. All we did was get stoned out of our minds. That didn't have anything to do with happiness.
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I have a son and a daughter; I try to teach them equally about balance, gender, and gender equity.
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I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm still scared of the dark. I have to have a light on all night. It's completely irrational, and my son is the same. I just hate the dark.
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The characteristic poetic strategy of our time-refine your singularities-is something Auden has not learned; so his best poems are very peculiarly good, nearly the most interesting poems of our time. When he writes badly, we can afford to be angry at him, and he can afford to laugh at us.
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Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
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If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.
