Anthony H. Cordesman Quotes
How quickly that will take place, and to what level it will reduce the cost and size of the U.S. presence, is something that has got to be determined by actual success, not some kind of calendar.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.
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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
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When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.
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Form follows beauty.
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I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
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It's a very sad thing to do, to divorce.
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Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.
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To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.
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How quickly that will take place, and to what level it will reduce the cost and size of the U.S. presence, is something that has got to be determined by actual success, not some kind of calendar.
