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Tommy Franks Quotes

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: american
Birth: June 17, 1945

Topics

Plan Enemy Contact Survives

I can't say I have a lucky charm, but I do wear a 3/4-zip U.S.A. jacket I wear to every event. I got it from Nike, and it was from the 2012 Olympic Games.

Say Games Lucky Jacket Wear Charm

If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful.

Ideas Small Think You Information

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

Morning Politics Me Egg You Seeing

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

Music Speak I Can Dare Say Started

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

Myself Looking Trying Hopeless Why

Most of the time, a kid doesn't think about what he's doing or why. This is the privilege of childhood.

Time Childhood Think Doing Why Kid

Portland doesn't read like a basketball town, unless you remember what the NBA was like before it exploded into the mainstream in the Eighties: back when cities like Seattle, Baltimore, and Philadelphia moved the needle.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Basketball Remember You Back Seattle

No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.

Beautiful Matter Theory Irritating

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

Change Death Only Worlds

None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.

William Scranton

Power Plant Drawing Us Like Knew

Everything else is irrelevant after the bliss of giving a perfect shot.

Giving Perfect Everything Bliss Shot

The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.

People Ideas Direction Think Judge

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