Curtis LeMay Quotes

I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war...

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• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  

  Ted Allen
  • Good
  • Real
  • House

• Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • You
  • Care
  • Ironic

• Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Diversity
  • Thousand

• When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Made
  • Artists
  • Back

• You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • You
  • Football
  • Games

• As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Long
  • Chance
  • Going

• If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • You

• I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Same
  • Intelligence
  • View

• Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Dad
  • Like

• There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • More
  • Speech
  • Contradiction

• People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• I was born in India - but never really lived there.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Never
  • Born
  • India

• When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Business
  • Water
  • California

• I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Women
  • Emotion

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • Best
  • Marriage

• It was the corner sweet-shop in Australia that first piqued my interest in interior design. I went into this space with a mixture of apprehension and excitement as a child. It was filled, floor to ceiling, with the most incredible rounded glass bowls filled to the brim with bonbons, buttons, and sweets.

  

  Anouska Hempel
  • Space
  • Design
  • Sweet

• People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Why
  • Mourning

• I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Better
  • Persons

• When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Never
  • Radio
  • Interviews

• I don't speak Spanish. I understand enough of it, having spent some time running Telemundo, and I put in a lot of time in Spain during the Barcelona Olympics. But I don't pretend to speak Spanish, and I don't want anyone to think that I can.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Time
  • Think
  • Running

• I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war...

  

  Curtis LeMay
  • War
  • Attitude