Alexander P. de Seversky Quotes
Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.
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I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
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On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.
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I like America. I don't want to hurt America.
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Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.
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Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that's the beauty of it all.
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It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.
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At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith in humanity as it is to be.
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Whenever I am embraced by land and seascape I draw ideas for new sculptures; new forms to touch and walk around, new people to embrace, with an exactitude of form that those without sight can hold and realize.. ..It is essentially practical and passionate.
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There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.
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Salvation is one of the Bible's great words, but many don't understand that the Bible presents salvation in three stages. Many people consider salvation a one-time, past event. They forget its ongoing nature.
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My wife, if she wants it, she will just go out and buy it.
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Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.
