Tommy Franks Quotes
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'
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You just have to be very humble if America has really worked for you like it has for me. Most of my friends are poor. Most of my siblings are poor. I see how hard it is just to get money unless you've got some incredible luck or work incredibly hard. I want everyone to do well. I wish 'Wayne's World' money on you!
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My singing led into acting, and that is how I discovered acting.
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Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
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Solutions: (...) Seek an understanding of the other sex's best intent.
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And what is friendship but a name,A charm that lulls to sleep,A shade that follows wealth or fame,And leaves the wretch to weep?
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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There are who separate the eternal light In forms of man and woman, day and night; They cannot bear that God be essence quite.
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So don't be fooled, so don't get lied to Love was always cruel And don't act strange, don't be a stranger It happened to me, now it's happening to you But if you'd take that train underwater Then we could talk it through
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Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.
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I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.
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President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.
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He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain.
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The chief duty of our federal government is the safety and security of the American people.
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I understood the power of Heinz since I was a kid, and I started to work for my father selling food to restaurants.
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No one hates war like a soldier hates war.
