Carl von Clausewitz Quotes
Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I am really easy to scare, and I don't enjoy watching spooky films.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.
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I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.
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I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.
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ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.
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I can't act without music very well.
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I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, resilient and glamorous.
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.
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I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.
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Sometimes, you chase the moment and you can never catch it. Films take so long to make that you can never anticipate what the cultural landscape will be when the film enters the world.
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The history of human civilisation is a history of mutual borrowings.
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I had almost no education. I hardly went to school. I’d be away for weeks doing films, then I’d come back and have no idea what they were talking about. Of course the other kids loved it: ‘You may be a well-known star but you don’t know how to do algebra.’ It was a nightmare.
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The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.
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I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.
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Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
