Stanley A. McChrystal Quotes

If you sit down with British officers or British senior NCOs, they understand the sweep of history. They know the history of British forces not just in Afghanistan but the history of British successful counter-insurgencies - Northern Ireland, Malaysia.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

BetterShortLongLessonMoralThan

No relationships are perfect. When they develop, there are things that have happened before in your life that you maybe don't discuss. And there are always fault lines within every relationship. I believe it doesn't take too much pressure to be placed on those fault lines for them to start cracking apart.

Andrew Haigh

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I remember watching the Blu-ray, and also when they first released it on DVD in the collection of all three movies of 'The Godfather,' and seeing all of those scenes that they cut out, and there wasn't a single one of them that I wished they had kept it, but they were the most exciting thing to watch anyway.

Matt Reeves

RememberSeeingThreeMoviesFirst

I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other.

Amanda Peet

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Everything feels like you're in slow motion and everything you do seems like it's about two or three plays of what everybody else is doing.

Tony Parker

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A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

Robin Trower

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I am an openly proud gay man.

Michael Sam

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When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn't on a diet.

Liv Tyler

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One thing I do like about L.A. is the fact that you can be - whether you're famous or it's just a matter of, like, seeing people you know all the time on the street, you can be pretty anonymous and walk around and, like, not run into people, because it's such a big city and because a lot of people drive.

Julia Holter

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I miss video games where the jump-kick was the trickiest combo to master.

Jay Asher

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When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

Brenton Thwaites

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We're told compassion comes not from generosity but from compliance. We're told kindness means raiding a man's hard-earned wages and sending them off to Washington so they - not you - may dole them out in courtesies and indulgences.

Allen West

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