Tommy Franks Quotes
Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.
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Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.
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There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.
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'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
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I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
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Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
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I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.
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Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
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In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.
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You don't have to be a bodybuilder to have strength in your muscles.
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One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.
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And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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It's very difficult to change the perception people have of you.
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An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply draws attention to that disparity, and to your own position on the lucky higher ground. It suggests a callousness, an inhumanity, a let's-just-rub-their-noses-in-it arrogance.
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Wit and valor are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom.
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We'll go in one direction with one album, and then we like to do the opposite right away. But it's not like we ever have an idea before we start - that would be too artificial. It all starts from just sitting in a room and playing.
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Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.
