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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The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.
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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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I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
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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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Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
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The death of Christ made it possible for God to accept sinful man, and that he has, in fact, done so. Consequently, whatever separation there is between man and the benefits of God's grace is subjective in nature and exists only in man's mind and unregenerate spirit. The message man needs to hear then, is not that he simply has a suggested opportunity for salvation, but that through Christ he has, in fact, already been redeemed to God and that he may enjoy the blessing that are already his through Christ
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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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Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.
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Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.
