Raymond T. Odierno Quotes

The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there... You have Kurds who were displaced by these Arabs that were moved up there by Saddam Hussein. Kurds have been displaced from Kirkuk for hundreds of years.

Raymond T. Odierno

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• I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.

  

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• But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.

  

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• Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

  

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• Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

  

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• As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.

  

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• I think it's really important to enlarge the issue behind abortion. I have been serving for over two decades and I have seen year in and year out largely the Republicans voting against women's contraception, family planning.

  

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• I think part of growing up is not actually finding a fixed idea of who you are, but rather being like, "Oh, wait. I'm different all the time. I'm going to change every second and grow and be fluid." And that's okay.

  

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• The one cool thing about being underground is that it gives you such freedom. You have to be so on top of it, releasing singles all the time, doing videos all the time, and I don't know if I'm ready to give up that freedom.

  

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• The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

  

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• To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.

  

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• There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

  

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• You can't be a victim and heal.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • You
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• O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Victim
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• Your job is to be you, which includes being the chief beneficiary of all things you do right, the chief victim of all you do wrong, and the one person on Earth who has to live with every choice you make. As gatekeeper to your life, you’re it.

  

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• Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

  

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• The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there... You have Kurds who were displaced by these Arabs that were moved up there by Saddam Hussein. Kurds have been displaced from Kirkuk for hundreds of years.

  

  Raymond T. Odierno
  • Victim
  • Hussein
  • Kurds