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Stanley A. McChrystal Quotes

I think every war certainly wears on national will and national patience, particularly a counterinsurgency.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Patience War Think Will I Think

I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time.

Time Feel Lose Lost Out Days

But I don't feel the need to be famous.

Famous Feel Need

All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial.

Sonia Sotomayor

Struggle Touch Judges Passions Our

I go into it with the attitude that I'm not going to look at my leg, and as soon as they get the wrapping off of it, I'm like, 'I've got to look.' It's like yelling at a dog going, 'Squirrel!' I cannot not look. And then I spend the rest of the time sitting there with a wet washcloth on my forehead trying to regain consciousness.

Dog Attitude Time Rest Trying Look

Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth.

Beauty Power Woman Youth Always

There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate on the basis of race. There's absolutely no light between those two positions. It becomes a little more complex when you talk about law as opposed to morality.

Light Law You Morality Moral Talk

That excites me, working with really excellent people, be it wonderful directors or actors or cinematographers and especially writers. My work life is going to a set and having these great experiences and coming home shifted by them.

Deborah Kara Unger

Life Work Home Great People Me

I want to inspire kids, and yeah, if that helps with expansion teams - in the MLS or anything like that - but my main goal is just to inspire. Try and inspire our youth.

Christian Pulisic

Youth Inspire Goal Want Try Kids

My 11-year-old thinks I'm cool because he watches things I've made on YouTube.

Armando Iannucci

Cool Watches YouTube Things Because

Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path.

Path Time I Am Worry Easy Wrong

I had no real respect for good technique because I didn't know what it was. I was self-taught, so that stuff didn't matter to me.

Good Respect Me Know Matter Real

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

Human Psychology Us Stuff Nail Knew

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