Andrew Bacevich Quotes
As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
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I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others... name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain't the character's fault, that isn't sexism, that's just not servicing the character.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange,because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison.
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The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me.
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You young maidens, too long constrained by a fanciful Virtue's absurd and dangerous bonds and by those of a disgusting religion, imitate the fiery Eugénie; be as quick as she to destroy, to spurn all those ridiculous precepts inculcated in you by imbecile parents.
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Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.
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I think what we should have done is integrate the web site with the magazine much earlier in the process.
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If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.
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As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.
