Carl von Clausewitz Quotes
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
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I love to drive. My present to myself from 'The Tudors' was a red Mazda MX5 hard-top convertible. I loved that car, and also what she represented - my first success.
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I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
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I drive girls crazy because I might call them 20 times in one day and then the next day not once.
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I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.
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It has been a tumultuous journey, no doubt. But I feel blessed to have got work.
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One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.
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Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
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If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
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It was immigration that taught us, it does not matter where you came from, or who your parents were. What counts is who you are.
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There is nothing ugly in sexuality or in the body. It's human!
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What do I like about math? , When I've got figures in front of me, it relaxes me. Kind of like, everything fits where it belongs.
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We want to make sure that our boys realize that there are all different kinds of families, and all families are great.
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This dumb little moment was the first time I heard a stranger hating me in public. I knew then, for real, that thousands of people were having the exact conversation all over the world every moment of every day. Those people were real and their thoughts were formed by overblown or just straight made up stories about me that I could never adequately defend myself against. People all over the world whom I had never met and would never meet hated me. HATED. And what they thought about me was completely out of my control.
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The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.
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Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.
