Nick Turse Quotes

What the military will say to a reporter and what is said behind closed doors are two very different things - especially when it comes to the U.S. military in Africa.

Nick Turse

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We will never know exactly how many women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. At the close of the hostilities, it was estimated that approximately 400 women had managed to enlist, but this number is almost certainly too low.

Jim Murphy

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It's important to fall in love with someone you don't want to change.

Jessica Simpson

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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

John Stuart Mill

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There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.

Steve Largent

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Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.

Simon Travaglia

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I love, for example, 'Full Frontal with Sam Bee.' I just love her show.

Mick Foley

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I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.

Louis Armstrong

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This will sound funny coming out of my mouth, but I like to play characters that have an intelligence. It doesn't matter if it's a physical intelligence or emotional intelligence.

Jon Hamm

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I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things.

Jonathan Galassi

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As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.

Dick Thornburgh

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I wrestle in a big way with August Wilson's work in that I at times admire it and at times feel infuriated by it, which is weirdly more influential than loving someone entirely.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

Peter Mandelson

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