Carl von Clausewitz Quotes
...the role of determination is to limit the agonies of doubt and the perils of hesitation when the motives for action are inadequate.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.
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In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.
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There is no such thing as going on to something bigger and better than 'M*A*S*H' because there is nothing bigger and better. I have done the best I can do, and been in the best I could be in on television - with the best people.
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Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
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I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.
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...the role of determination is to limit the agonies of doubt and the perils of hesitation when the motives for action are inadequate.
