B. H. Liddell Hart Quotes
The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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I always loved Hanks in 'Philadelphia' and 'Forrest Gump' and watching how versatile he was. That shaped my impression of what someone was able to do. Of course, everything De Niro came up with was always something I was taken by.
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It's not just about achieving success; the journey is equally important for me.
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On 'Dawson's Creek,' those kids were supposed to be outsider kids - you know, wrong-side-of-the-track kids, weirdo kids. And I just felt like there's no universe out there where Katie Holmes isn't the prom queen, hottest girl in school.
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There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.
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I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.
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Japan should not intervene in other countries' conflicts by using military power. And I don't think Japan is capable of doing such things. For starters, I don't believe our country has sufficient human resources to make that type of international contribution.
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The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.
