Anthony Zinni Quotes
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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I'm high energy.
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My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
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I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
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Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
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I got the famous Oprah hug!
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.
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Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.
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I'm down to bleach my eyebrows again. I tell you what, though - that didn't go down well with my boyfriend. Girls love it. Guys, not so into it.
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The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.
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I would love to go do movies; I would love to kind of delve into other things. I did do acting and modeling before, when I was a kid, so it would be nice to use those things.
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How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.
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Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.
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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
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I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.
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If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.
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Je plie, et ne romps pas.
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The amazing thing about the sea is that it is perhaps the last truly unexplored frontier; most oceanographers estimate that only about ninety-five per cent of the sea has been studied. Meanwhile, the oceans are believed to contain more animals than exist on land, a majority of which have never been discovered.
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Born to a premature death, a menial, subsistence-wage worker, odd-job man, the cleaner, the caught, the man under hatches, without bail-that's me, the colonial victim. Anyone who can pass the civil service examination today can kill me tomorrow. Anyone who passed the civil service examination yesterday can kill me today with complete immunity.
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My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.
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The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.
