Tommy Franks Quotes
I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.
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Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
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My best friend is my husband.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
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I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.
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Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
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As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.
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You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry
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It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.'
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Bill Clinton fascinates me because, at the time, it seemed like his shenanigans and the people after him were the biggest political stories you could ever imagine. I remember when the 'Starr Report' was published in the newspaper, all of us were reading it in the high-school cafeteria, and a dean started taking the newspapers away from us.
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I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.
