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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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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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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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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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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It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions.
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I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right ....
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
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People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard.
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In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
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I'll try to be careful, but I know I'm not immune, cause I just can't imagine how I'd ever come to harm with this feeling that I'm feeling as I'm drowning in your arms.
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Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.
