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Douglas MacArthur Quotes

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Douglas MacArthur

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: american
Birth: January 26, 1880 - April 5, 1964

Topics

Peace War Scars Veterans Day Bear

My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'

Fear Dreams Girl Me Sorry Saying

I wrote an ITV drama in the 1960s, a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. I'm also a poet and have had work in the 'Spectator.'

Maurice Flanagan

Work Management Drama Satire Poet

I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider. Then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first 30 feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it has crossed the plate.

Feet Speed Flight First Ball Up

I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter.

Art Childhood Fun Performance End

Everyone wants to be an arena act, and it's making country music evolve. People are cutting things more for that arena environment. But who's to say that that is a sign of any more of a successful career than what James Taylor has been able to do, when he still comes and plays the Ryman every two years?

Music People Environment Career Say

Everybody seems to live rather well down here in Monaco!

Live Down Here Seems Well Rather

I don't want to be remembered as a beaten champion.

Champion Want Remembered Beaten

I was ecstatic when 'The Walking Dead' came along. Merle Dixon was so perfectly adapted for me.

Me Walking Dead Along Ecstatic Came

Film is a temporal medium as much as it is a visual medium: you're playing with time, and you don't have that ability where someone can pause at home. That's such a fundamental part of what makes filmmaking exciting to me. I don't really have as much interest in any other medium. I just like the control.

Home Time Me Control Someone You

Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

You Lost Go Three Why Way

I think we were born 6 feet tall and then started to grow from there. My dad's not particularly tall - only 5 feet, 11 inches - but his mother was almost 6 feet and straight as a ramrod: a German woman who used to scare the hell out of me.

Mother Woman Me Feet Think Hell

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.

Know Rumors Always Things Last

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