Andrew Bacevich Quotes
As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
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Even though decathlon is really long, there's always something different to look forward to, which is great for mental stimulation.
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My personal view is the true long-term storage is mineral carbonates, which is some form of accelerated weathering.
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My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.
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I wanted to build up a name for myself.
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As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.
