Eric L. Haney Quotes
War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force - to dominate our being.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.
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If Eggy wanted to get spliced, let him, was the way I looked at it. Marriage might improve him. It was difficult to think of anything that wouldn’t.
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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If the public understands the central bank's views on the economy and monetary policy, then households and businesses will take those views into account in making their spending and investment plans; policy will be more effective as a result.
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At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
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There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.
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Let me be clear, Mr. President, mistakes have been made in Iraq. And this operation has been far from perfect as evidenced by the fact that Zarqawi and other terrorists continue to wreak havoc throughout Iraq.
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When something really grabs me, I dive into it.
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Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.
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I am really close to my family. My cousin is my best friend!
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I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.
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It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.
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God bless nannies.
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The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise.
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War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force - to dominate our being.
