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 see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
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I do not think the coerced mind ever really learns an art.
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Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national socialism: the downward curve of the revolution gave rise to Stalinism, not to the theory of the permanent revolution, which was first formulated by me in 1905. This theory is not bound to a definite calendar of revolutionary events; it only reveals the world-wide interdependence of the revolutionary process.
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Mr Hitchens's policy has succeeded in making 10,000 new Bin Ladens.
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I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.
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In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.
