Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Quotes
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
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Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.
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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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When I was living in the Dominican Republic, the local kids became a part of my family.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
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The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam and restore law and order to campuses and cities convulsed by crime, riots and racial violence. Nixon appeared to have succeeded and was rewarded with a 49-state landslide.
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I don't really think much about how I would have fared in the Second World War. It's a topic that has to be treated with respect and subtlety, and you can't just go in all guns blazing and make an epic action film.
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The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.
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It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.
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Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique quality. In fact, we can neglect nothing because everything we select or do sends a message to the observer...
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I make war on the living, not the dead.
