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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What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?
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If a segment of one's force is located where it is not sufficiently busy with the enemy, or if the troops are on the march - that is, idle - while the enemy is fighting, then these forces are being managed uneconomically. In this sense they are being wasted, which is even worse than using them inappropriately.
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Fear is the enemy of logic.
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A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.
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Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.
