Andrew Bacevich Quotes
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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I love acting.
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I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
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If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.
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I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
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Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.
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Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.
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My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the checks after I paid the bills. I had a chuckle with my grandmother recently on how 'unbalanced' her checkbook must have been years ago.
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I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.
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I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.
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The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
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Balanced, passionate, grounded people are the ones whose careers are ultimately the most successful.
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Ideology makes people stupid.
