Hal Moore Quotes
Fear comes, and once you recognize it and accept it, it passes just as fast as it comes, and you don’t really think about it anymore. You just do what you have to do, but you learn the real meaning of fear and life and death.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
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All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!
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It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.
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Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
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The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
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Pornography does not cause rape or violence, which predate pornography by thousands of years. Rape and violence occur not because of patriarchal conditioning but because of the opposite, a breakdown of social controls.
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And I stare at the phone, he still hasn't called.And then you feel so low you can't feel nothing at all.And you flash back to when he said forever and always.Oh, and it rains in your bedroom,Everything is wrong.It rains when you're here and it rains when you're gone.'Cause I was there when you said forever and always.
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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
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One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
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We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.
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I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.
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The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You're braver, and you'll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it'd be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn't.
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There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.
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I started working on stage as a dancer when I was four; by 14 or 15, I knew I wanted to study the craft of acting.
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Fear comes, and once you recognize it and accept it, it passes just as fast as it comes, and you don’t really think about it anymore. You just do what you have to do, but you learn the real meaning of fear and life and death.
