Ardant du Picq Quotes
Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.
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America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.
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I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.
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'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.
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I have been vain since birth.
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We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war.
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Learning proceeds until death and only then does it stop. ... Its purpose cannot be given up for even a moment. To pursue it is to be human, to give it up to be a beast.
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Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
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Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.
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My girlfriend looks a little like Charlize Theron...and a lot like Patrick Ewing.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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There should be no limits for the blind.
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The main problem with pacifism is that it doesn’t work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they’re convinced it does.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted.
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Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.
