Richard Perle Quotes
No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.
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As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.
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When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
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I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
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Shoot me in the chest.
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I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.
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I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.
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I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.
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I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.
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There are not many places in the world where you can get to the beach in an hour, the desert in two hours and snowboarding or skiing in three hours. You can do all that in California.
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The climbs up the Hand of Fatima, which is 2,000 feet, and Naga Parbat, which is just over 15,000 feet, were spectacular. The Hand of Fatima and the Kaga Tondo, in Mali, is a personal favourite of mine.
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My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.
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Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.
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Ramadan typically brings a spike in violence in Middle East. I get grumpy when I don't eat - but I don't blow things up. Religion of peace?
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I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tired—my God, so tired—of leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.
