Tommy Franks Quotes
Now, when you boys get home, you're gonna see a lot of war protestors. But don't be bitter. Go up to one, shake his hand, and smile. Then wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
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I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.
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I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
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From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.
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The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
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I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.
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I think when I first started out making music here in Los Angeles, a lot of people were really curious about my ethnicity, and you know, whatever questions they had, I'd be more than happy to answer them.
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The FA Cup for all the fans does mean something special.
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I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
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I love my life. I love my work. I love my training. It's all due to my love for life, my love for people. I'm very happy to be alive.
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The Kenyans beat up on the American runners in every road race every weekend of the year, but we're way ahead of them in the number and quality of our Elvis impersonators. We get our X-Men and gorillas.
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Sometimes I have to shake my head at how much work it can take to track down a handful of food. Perfect example: I spent a whole day in the Amazon rainforest, in Ecuador, scouring the trunks of dead palm trees for grubs.
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I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.
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When my father would come home from his work at the Senate and talk about the things he could talk about - because a lot of his work was top secret - he would always tell me these stories and laugh. As deadly serious as his work was, he would laugh at the absurdity of it all.
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Now, when you boys get home, you're gonna see a lot of war protestors. But don't be bitter. Go up to one, shake his hand, and smile. Then wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy.
