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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'Ponyets! They sent you?' 'Pure chance,' said Ponyets, bitterly, 'or the work of my own personal malevolent demon.'
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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'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.
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Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.
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I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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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.
