Eric Greitens Quotes
I was at this dinner for Rhodes Scholars. And we were in the Rhodes mansion, which is this fancy mansion on the Oxford campus. And I remember I looked up in the rotunda, and I saw that etched into the marble were the names of Rhodes Scholars who had left Oxford, and had fought and died in World War II.
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I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw.
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I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
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If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.
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I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.
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Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.
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I play football every Tuesday and Thursday early in the season. I am smart enough at the game. I score a lot of goals. I wouldn't be the best in the world but I am OK.
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The difference between successes and failures in life is simply that winners take the first step.
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They want us to get down. I'm going to get down.
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We're trying to find areas of cooperation with Russia in the area of counterterrorism and the campaign against ISIS.
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The state's results clearly demonstrate that we still are not doing what is needed to help these older students build the reading skills they will need to deal with increasingly complex high school courses.
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Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group.
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Being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
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I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
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I'm finding that people reading the book [The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star] are saying, "You came from one background, I came from this background - you were a rock star, I was a CEO. I didn't have a heroin/coke problem, but I had a pill problem. But I also fell from grace, didn't know how to get recovery, and I am now in recovery." People tell me that their kids read it and told them they'll never do drugs - "This book really shows me where it goes."
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In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.
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Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.
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Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane of central bankers.
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I'm having trouble managing the mansion. What I need is a wife.
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I was at this dinner for Rhodes Scholars. And we were in the Rhodes mansion, which is this fancy mansion on the Oxford campus. And I remember I looked up in the rotunda, and I saw that etched into the marble were the names of Rhodes Scholars who had left Oxford, and had fought and died in World War II.
