Curtis LeMay Quotes

If I see that the Russians are amassing their planes for an attack, I'm going to knock the shit out of them before they take off the ground.

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• Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Feel
  • Glamorous
  • Lingerie

• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Society
  • Control

• I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Law
  • Just
  • Top

• When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Want
  • Me
  • Car

• Your mind is what makes everything else work.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Everything

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • Up
  • Wall
  • Army

• The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Integrity

• The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Life
  • Training
  • Animal

• No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • You
  • Matter
  • Afraid

• There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Mistakes

• My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Eyes
  • Mouth
  • Nose

• I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Tennis
  • Gym
  • Dancing

• I actually hate shopping.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Hate
  • Shopping
  • Actually

• Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Money
  • Me
  • Painting

• I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.

  

  Feist
  • Writing
  • Blood
  • Stone

• In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • School
  • Happy
  • High

• You don't want to be told, "Hey, do whatever you want." That's what we think of when we think of play. It's the thing where you get to do whatever you come up with in your own mind, all bets are off, there's no boundaries.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• We fear rejection, want attention, crave affection and dream of perfection.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Dream
  • Fear
  • Attention

• What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make that connection to trying to make revolutionary change, and I don't need to change my music to get to a certain audience.

  

  Boots Riley
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• Let us redeem our great words from base uses. Let that no longer call itself Love, which knows that it is not free!

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Great
  • Free
  • Words

• The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Drug
  • Toxic

• If I see that the Russians are amassing their planes for an attack, I'm going to knock the shit out of them before they take off the ground.

  

  Curtis LeMay