William Hartung Quotes
Current levels of Pentagon spending may not be able to support current defense strategy. The answer to this problem is right before our eyes: cut the money and change the strategy. That would be acting in the name of a conception of national security that was truly strategic.
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I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.
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I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.
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When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
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The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
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I felt the need, in order to widen my field of observation and to refresh my vision in front of new sights, to take myself away for a while from the area where I was living, and to make some trips lasting several weeks in Normandy, Brittany and elsewhere..
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You know, sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say - you're bright! They're actually surprised I might be bright.
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A complete investment in the Obama administration required that any real opposition had to be demonized. The investment in Barack Obama had to be protected.
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Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.
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Usually, historically, nothing good comes out of relationships becoming more complicated!
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When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.
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The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.
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I work very hard at each story, at every sentence.
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A lot of these big movies are just a collection or a montage of big set pieces.
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Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention speech is a great example. His son's speech was also quite powerful.
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You have to make one thing a priority and achieve balance that way, rather than trying to do everything all at once.
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People say, 'Do you have the same opportunity today as you had years ago?' And I said, 'Absolutely.' You always have an opportunity. There's always an opportunity, especially in this country.
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There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.
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I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.
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Current levels of Pentagon spending may not be able to support current defense strategy. The answer to this problem is right before our eyes: cut the money and change the strategy. That would be acting in the name of a conception of national security that was truly strategic.
