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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For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.
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Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.
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Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.
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...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.
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I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
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Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.
