Albert Sidney Johnston Quotes
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
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I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
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Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as 'sustaining' leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.
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To act is to rest.
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
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Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.
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I am a bad planner, and my friends would vouch for it.
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Peace is only better than war if peace is not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
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I still live.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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It's really fun to go back and forth from acting projects to directing projects. You don't have as much responsibility when you're acting, but you have more fun. But then you miss having that responsibility, and so you go back and torture yourself and make a movie.
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.
