Andreï Makine Quotes
In war the most testing moments are those of peace , for a dead man lying in the grass makes the living see the world as it would be, but for their folly.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.
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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
Nastassja Kinski -
If you give a party, you better give it right.
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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I believe in a passion for inclusion.
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Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
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All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.
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I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That's how I describe myself.' (Piers Morgan Tonight)
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Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.
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I'm very fortunate. I loved school and, when I went there, race, gangs and violence were not issues. There was a feeling, gone now, that you had to be presentable. If you hadn't combed your hair, older black ladies - complete strangers - would come up to you in the street and pull out a comb and straighten your tie.
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So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film. Sometimes you'll have a movie that you're very proud of, and you think it transcended all of your expectations, but it doesn't come out at the right time. I have done movies that have never been released. That can be depressing.
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I'm coming from the zone of Faith Evans, but with weird production.
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Now that they have achieved the capture of Hussein, they should appeal to the UN to come in with a multilateral redevelopment plan. This is all the more reason this war should come to an immediate end.
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Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.
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It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.
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I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.
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In war the most testing moments are those of peace , for a dead man lying in the grass makes the living see the world as it would be, but for their folly.
