George S. Patton Quotes
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.'
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Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
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Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.
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When in doubt, do it.
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I never had to look for confidence because I just wore what I wanted to wear. I would never wear anything to offend my husband or my mother, but outside of that, I always figured, I hope I'm not a rebel, and I hope everybody liked it. And if they didn't like it, it really was not going to disturb me because it was their problem, not mine.
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I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.
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I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.
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The problem is that you can't really read a script saying, 'Hmmm, I'll just see what this is.' You have to go right into it; you have to get engaged with it, and once you are engaged, you want to do it! It's really difficult to get uninvolved.
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Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.
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Even the bad things are better than they used to be. Bad music, for instance, has gotten much briefer. Wagner's Ring Cycle takes four days to perform while 'Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm' by the Crash Test Dummies lasts little more than three minutes.
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I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.
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I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.
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We do have the power to save one another...
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I can’t die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I’ll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
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To be honest I think my read is people are now taking this seriously. They realise that the game is up and the planet and all of us - I mean all of us - have to really start doing something much more drastic in order to try and contain the impacts.
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Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts.
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
