Antoine-Henri Jomini Quotes
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one it becomes necessary to have an accurate knowledge of the enemy's camp.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
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The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
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I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.
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A lot of films come out before they're finished.
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.
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It's always about the music, never about anything else.
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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
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If you establish a routine for your child, then your routine can be more manageable.
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
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There is no doubt that the new wave in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of the Islamic world.
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Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
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I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.
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The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one it becomes necessary to have an accurate knowledge of the enemy's camp.
