Andrew Bacevich Quotes

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

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• 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

• 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
  • Government
  • Problem

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I love going to work out now. It gets out aggression and my trainer really shakes it up so I don't get bored.

  

  Adriana Lima
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  • Work
  • Bored

• It's a great battle, and it really is a battle, and there are people from all walks of life, you know, never judge anybody at the table: A man can be the greatest poker player and he might know all the numbers, but he might get beaten by a really savvy kid who works in a grocery store; and that's what's so great about this game.

  

  James Woods
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq.

  

  Mark Kennedy
  • People
  • Work
  • Power

• Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

  

  Arthur Adamov
  • Long

• When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

  

  Kevyn Aucoin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.

  

  Lisa Snowdon
  • Long
  • Food
  • Light

• Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot and try to put their voices into their character.

  Dito Montiel
  • Writing
  • Character

• I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Dark

• Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Human

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

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Fiction