William Hooper Quotes
In a word I begin to believe that patriotism among the common soldiery is a bubble and that pay well and hang well are the grand secrets to make an army—that this is a mere machine, that ought never to think, or act but when acted upon; that it requires skillful artificers or officers, to wind up and conduct its movements, for when left to itself it will soon run down or go into irregularities which must produce confusion and ruin to itself.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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I just look at all the fruit and all the people's lives that are being changed and are being touched. And that's what we really focus on because we hear - every day we get mail, we visit with people, and their lives are being changed.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
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My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
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I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.
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I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.
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When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
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The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
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When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
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I think there are a lot of good pieces that can be covered in 20 minutes that don't need an hour, but by the same token, there are things that need an hour or more.
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I think people desperately want to feel love.
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I'm glad to say I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.
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I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.
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In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.
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My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.
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Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
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In a word I begin to believe that patriotism among the common soldiery is a bubble and that pay well and hang well are the grand secrets to make an army—that this is a mere machine, that ought never to think, or act but when acted upon; that it requires skillful artificers or officers, to wind up and conduct its movements, for when left to itself it will soon run down or go into irregularities which must produce confusion and ruin to itself.
