Dawn Hudson Quotes

The fact that the academy is seen as being so important to the cultural conversation is a big compliment.

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• In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Power

• Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Light
  • Know
  • Fruit

• Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Peace
  • Mission
  • Contribution

• I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • People
  • Trying
  • Happy

• I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Great
  • Popular

• Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • America
  • Army
  • Economy

• When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • Heart
  • You
  • Strength

• Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Revolution
  • Create
  • Tool

• Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Up
  • Good
  • America

• Harry constantly repeated Dumbledore's final words to himself. "I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. ... Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it. "But what good were these words? Who exactly were they supposed to ask for help, when everyone was just as confused and scared as they were?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • School
  • Help

• Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Words
  • Silence
  • Conceal

• The people who are making a lot of money and eating at McDonald's and watching MTV and have square eyeballs, they're over there. And then maybe there's like five other people left in America and I'm just waiting for them to come up with something interesting.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

  

  Chilon of Sparta
  • Sense
  • Tongue

• He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Life
  • Choose
  • Imitation

• When you meet someone for the first time instead of asking them what they do, you should ask them what they've always wanted to do. This conversation will be much more interesting.

  

  Dallas Clayton
  • Interesting
  • Conversation
  • Someone

• Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jersey's are they reading as they trot out to the feild?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Home
  • Age
  • Team

• I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.

  

  George Washington
  • Soul
  • Wish
  • Slavery

• The fact that the academy is seen as being so important to the cultural conversation is a big compliment.

  

  Dawn Hudson
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