Alexander Haig Quotes
In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.
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It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.
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I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
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Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.
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Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
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As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.
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I used to think that only people who were crazy were attracted to the desert, but once you've lived there, you become that way anyway.
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In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.
