Stanley A. McChrystal Quotes

We are alarmed that a known or suspected terrorist can go to a federally licensed firearms dealer where background checks are conducted, pass that background check, legally purchase a firearm, and walk out the door.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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Today's merger makers are not ad people; they're building communications companies.

Jerry Della Femina

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I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all.

John Hawkes

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I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

Skeet Ulrich

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Theatre tends to be more metaphorical and intense, as you're locked in one room and focused on one thing. Television can hop around, and you need to invest in its naturalistic reality more. But I love writing both, precisely because they're so different.

Mike Bartlett

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It's just this feeling of when you're a kid, you have these ideas about the world and about people in your life that don't always hold up as you get older and start to realise that things are more complex than you might've realised. That's always a big part of a coming-of-age story.

Jon Watts

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My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'

Dean Kamen

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In comedy, when you bomb, especially at The Comedy Store in front of a sold-out house? I think it would have been way worse if I bombed there than losing a UFC fight.

Brendan Schaub

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As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.

Scott Weiland

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There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.

Maria Sharapova

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When I read 'Planet Terror,' it was like nothing I had ever read before remotely, and yet it has so many references.

Marley Shelton

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It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

Konrad Zuse

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Who would have thought that a story about a professor of phonetics would result in it being probably one of the great shows ever for musical theatre? It's a seemingly odd subject.

Julie Andrews

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