William Manchester Quotes
It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
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'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
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I go to this gym in Hollywood: it's a Cross Fit gym. It's basically just a really high intensity, sort of, athletic movements. I'm sure Cross Fit is going to be mad at me for not giving their definition of what Cross Fit is.
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You're going to work out and try to maintain the strength you gain in the offseason, and then you work to gain after the season is over.
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By promoting justice and thus the interests of the international community as a whole, a state will be able to make its influence over others sustainable and achieve its own national interest.
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There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
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'Hallelujah' is going to be a standard that our grandkids, our great-great grandkids will learn to sing in church. It's one of those really, really special songs.
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Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone.
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I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.
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What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.
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Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.
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Growing up, we never got to see a hero who didn't have superpowers who looked like us, that you could kind of look to and say, 'I could be that guy one day. I could be a patriot. I could be a soldier. I could work in the government and be a hero.'
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I try to list the top three things to get done every day, and I'll be lucky if I hit all three, but it's amazing what that does to keep you on track.
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You can plan physically to try to win the Tour, but I could never plan for what was going to happen after it.
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The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.
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I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.
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But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.
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The audience is not your boss. They are your collaborators and when you collaborate with someone you don't have to listen to everything they think or say.
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It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.
