William Halsey (Bill Halsey) Quotes
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Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
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We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
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One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
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It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.
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Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
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Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
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Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
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I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.
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You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.
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When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.
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I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.
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Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
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When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!
