Alfred Jodl Quotes
The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out. The genius of the Führer and his determination not to shun even a world war have again won victory without the use of force. The hope remains that the incredulous, the weak and the doubters have been converted and will remain that way.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
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I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.
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Every child has to raise itself.
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How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.
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Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.
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The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.
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Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.
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The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out. The genius of the Führer and his determination not to shun even a world war have again won victory without the use of force. The hope remains that the incredulous, the weak and the doubters have been converted and will remain that way.
