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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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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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 wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
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It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
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The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four.
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In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.
