Dexter Filkins Quotes

In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.

Dexter Filkins

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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Andre Gide

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There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.'

Robert Pozen

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I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

Rod Taylor

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Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.

Mickey Rourke

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The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up.

Michael Lewis

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I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.

Luis Fortuno

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Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.

Lou Gramm

BeginningCreateWillNeverTake

I grew up on a farm, so there were rifles around. Every March around springtime, there's a big hunt that goes on, and you go out and hunt down all the pheasants. I actually never shot the pheasants; I'm not a big fan of killing animals myself.

Joseph Mawle

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It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

Colin Powell

AngerStartPoliticalEnoughWall

If we believe that a person seeking refuge is to be pitied, feared, despised, and looked down upon, we are doing ourselves a disservice.

Clemantine Wamariya

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Whatever you do, never do the duck face - that's the worst look for any girl out there. Some girls think that pushing out their lips looks fabulous, but it doesn't.

Coco Rocha

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It might sound stupid, but I don't enter a race to win - I enter a race because I love racing.

Bronte Campbell

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