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Stanley A. McChrystal Quotes

Wars often begin with enthusiastic vigor but typically settle into costly, dirty business characterized for soldiers by fear, frustration, and loneliness.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: american
Birth: August 14, 1954

Topics

Fear Business Loneliness Frustration

Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling hungry for something flawed and of-the-flesh.

Jerry Saltz

You Look Feeling Renaissance High

There's something about me that suggests I don't have an intelligent atom in me at all. So people say things to me that they wouldn't say to other people. Insulting, condescending things. They don't think I notice. But, of course, I'm taking it all in.

Jennifer Coolidge

People Me Think Say Intelligent

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

Michael J. Fox

Discipline Doing Way Watching Right

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Sigmund Freud

Belief Just Forced Unbelief

It's not like I'm dying to do work that's taken seriously, and I'm not looking to become a thespian. It's not what I'm looking for; I'm just looking to do quality work.

Jason Statham

Work Quality Looking Seriously Dying

A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast.

Javier Camara

Think Decisions Choose Difficult

I turned down a film that was offered to me in the very early '80s, a Scorsese film. That probably wasn't a good career move.

Christopher Lloyd

Good Me Early Career Down Film

In reality, a cell is a biological mini-me compared to the human body. A cell has every biological system that you have.

Bruce Lipton

Reality You Body Human Human Body

I've always said, if you treat yourself like a queen, you'll attract a king.

Pepa

Yourself Queen King Treat You Said

I kind of don't like doing film commentaries because I think they're kind of weird.

Peter Segal

Think Weird Doing Kind Film Because

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.

Peter Ackroyd

Great Lose Person Last Just Made

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

Toby Jones

People You Never Real Always Tell