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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'I just got shot in the ass with an infected load of semen! Who's the smart-ass?'
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Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.
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International trade theory has, in my opinion, given far too much attention to the effects of certain variations, for example, in duties, on the national incomes, and too little to the effects on individual incomes. In many cases, changes in the sums count for very little, while changes in the individual incomes are distinctly relevant.
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Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
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Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.
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Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.
