Lawrence Eagleburger Quotes
In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.
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The world needs some help.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting something, making a truth claim, uttering a proposition that is claiming to be true, it is the truth.
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Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
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I'm happy with my body.
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Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
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My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We were doing 'L.A. Law,' and I got this call that my dad was in Rome and had had a stroke. I want to stress that it wasn't a huge stroke, but it was enough to provide a serious wake-up call.
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In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.
