William C. Oates Quotes
My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood stood in puddles in some places on the rocks; the ground was soaked with the blood of as brave men as ever fell on the red field of battle.

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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
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This dark diction has become America's addiction.
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My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.
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In men this blunder still you find,-All think their little set mankind.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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Our nation's vital infrastructure - such as power grids and transportation hubs - becomes more vulnerable when individual devices get hacked. Criminals and terrorists who want to infiltrate systems and disrupt sensitive networks may start their attacks through access to just one person's smartphone.
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Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.
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History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness.
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My favorite place is where I live in Jacksonville.
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Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
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I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.
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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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All of my early images were really visual experiments to me. They were attempts to answer unasked questions like, what happens if you put images of six men and six women together, or if we combined a monkey's image with a human, would the result approximate an image of early man?
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It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.
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My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood stood in puddles in some places on the rocks; the ground was soaked with the blood of as brave men as ever fell on the red field of battle.