Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Quotes
He John Hampden knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.
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Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.
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I hate small talk! I can't do it.
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I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.
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I've done a lot of commercial work. I'm the complete photographer.
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I remember my father saying to me once, 'I finally know how to describe you, Charlotte. You're prickly.' And he was right - prickly is a very good description. If I had to be an animal, I'd probably be a porcupine.
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In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.
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Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'
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We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.
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Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.
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Scientists are supposed to study animals in a totally objective fashion, similar to the way we inspect a rock or measure the circumference of a tree trunk. Emotions are not to interfere with the assessment. The animal-rights movement capitalizes on this perception, depicting scientists as devoid of compassion.
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I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
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If we look decades ago, we know that NATO allies contributed a lot of equipment close to the border of the Soviet Union.
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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
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Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.
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We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.
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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
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It's far harder to love God and do his will than it is to be self absorbed and love my own will.
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He John Hampden knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.
