Boake Carter Quotes
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War In time of war the first casualty is truth.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
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Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.
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It's about players making choices as they play, and then dealing with the consequences of those choices. It's about you telling your story, not me telling mine. It's about you.
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You don't want to disappoint your mama, for that main fact that she's going to get on your behind.
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I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.
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There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.
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Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.
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America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
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The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.
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Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.
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If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War In time of war the first casualty is truth.
