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.

William Hartung

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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.

  

  Waris Dirie
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• When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
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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.

  

  Walter Benjamin
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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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• 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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• A lot of these big movies are just a collection or a montage of big set pieces.

  

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• I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

  

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• Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

  

  Denis Waitley
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• Mentorship is an incredibly huge responsibility. And you need to choose your mentors carefully, just like mentors choose their apprentices carefully. There has to be trust there, on a very deep level.

  

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• I'm not really caught up in the whole commercial thing of Christmas. I'm probably more of a pagan than a Christian, but it's hard not to get caught up in it.

  

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• But even if we would execute perfectly on our corporate strategy, unless we have the right channels to the market to bridge the last few meters to the consumer, it's all in vain.

  

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• There are days I like going out, and days I like to sit naked with the remote control on my thigh, watching 'Breaking Bad.' I'm in love with that TV show. And 'Louie' on FX. And 'The Newsroom' - well, I don't know if I like it, but I'm obsessed with it. It's so Sorkin-y. But I've got some friends on there, so it's good to support them.

  

  Christopher Mintz-Plasse
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• With a few exceptions, birds are not to be trusted; it is not normal to have such soft, vulnerable bodies bookended with slashing beaks and razor-sharp claws. It is as unnatural as an armed marshmallow.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
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• 'It is so easy a thing to give-only great men have the courage and courtesy and, yes, the generosity to receive.'

  

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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.

  

  William Hartung
  • Support
  • Cutting
  • Strategy