Andrew Bacevich Quotes
The U.S. has become a defacto one-party state, with the legislative branch permanently controlled by an incumbent's party and every president exploiting his role as Commander-in-Chief to expand on the imperial prerogatives of his office.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia, and I don't quite know why. Even though I've got to travel the world and do amazing things, I still want to go back to my teenage years and change little aspects of it. It's strange, but it does continue to bug me.
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The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.
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A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
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For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.
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My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
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Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.
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And Republican women have always been the backbone of our party. We do the work, we are strong believers in conservative values. Having more of those voices in place at a state level is going to be a great improvement for us as a party.
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In my terms, "neurocognitive efficiency" is being able to make smarter, faster decisions on the floor.
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Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.
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The U.S. has become a defacto one-party state, with the legislative branch permanently controlled by an incumbent's party and every president exploiting his role as Commander-in-Chief to expand on the imperial prerogatives of his office.
