Andrew Bacevich Quotes
Sometimes, when you can't fix the problem on your own, you need to make some compromises and find the partners who can get the job done for you.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
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I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.
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I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.
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The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.
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My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.
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I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me.
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.
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I think we could all do better sometimes of not overextending ourselves as much.
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I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.
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To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.
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Sometimes you have to be somebody you're not.
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One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led to the creation of new economies and the expansion of some old ones – I have already mentioned the drug trade and the market for sexual services. At the same time, though, there are any number of communities that more than welcome prisons as a source of employment. Communities even compete with one another to be the site where new prisons will be constructed because prisons create a significant number of relatively good jobs for their residents.
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I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?
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In reflecting on our problems, we should include ourselves.
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I think the way we react to things is a big indicator of our character and what type of person we are.
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Sometimes, when you can't fix the problem on your own, you need to make some compromises and find the partners who can get the job done for you.
