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.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Police

• We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Death
  • Winning
  • Dying

• Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Leather

• 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.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Strong Woman

• 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.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Page

• I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Been
  • Upset
  • Facebook

• 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.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Stop
  • Successful
  • Ambition

• 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.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Lost
  • Problem
  • Government

• Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • World
  • Mind
  • Living

• I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Opportunities

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Violence
  • End
  • Goals

• When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Real
  • Want

• After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Home
  • Alone
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Think
  • Man
  • Government

• 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.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Character
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Period

• 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.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money

• I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Time
  • Morning

• These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure orders. There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Time
  • Job
  • Moving

• Bitch, I'm a performah!

  

  BeBe Zahara Benet
  • Performah

• I knew if I went home with the gold medal knowing that I could do better, I wasn't going to be very satisfied.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Home
  • Gold

• I've met men who've stood in long lines on my book tours, and they've said things like, 'I've read your books and they've changed the direction in my life, and I want to thank you.' I think they're standing in line for their wife or their mother or their sweetheart or somebody, but no.

  

  Beverly Lewis
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Fiction