Carl von Clausewitz Quotes
The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless.
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.
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Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.
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There seems to be this thing in football where everything has to be... now!
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It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.
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Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.
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I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of TV a day, you're just closing your eyes to some of the most important sort of stream of consciousness that's going on!
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Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very best ones are able to uncover problems people didn't realize that they had.
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Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
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I record all night and sleep all day.
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Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
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People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?
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I lived in a kind of dream of communism.
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Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.
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When I first started out, being from the South and going to New York or Chicago, people kept telling me to get voice lessons and 'lose that stupid accent you got.' And I'm like, 'Well, where I come from, you have the stupid accent.'
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You don't want a movie to have a lot of awards and no audience.
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There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred.
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Morgan, Lewis is a very large firm now, but it was not quite as big then. It was exciting for an associate in those days, because you got good and varied assignments and terrific training.
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I fell through the holes in the educational system. But education is still a way to change a life.
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The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless.
