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Eric Shinseki Quotes

In the army, we do two things every day. We train our soldiers, and then we grow them into leaders, because frankly, we don't hire out. We grow our own leaders.

Eric Shinseki

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: american
Birth: November 28, 1942

Topics

Day Grow Army Every Day Train Out

I don't think of myself as a New York actor; I think about this guy who's an actor who happens to be from New York.

Jeremy Luke

Myself New York Think New Actor Guy

I suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.

Andre Leon Talley

Water Done Try Successful Daring

Nowadays, ideas can meet and mate very much faster than before, and the Internet is only accelerating this process. So innovation is bound to accelerate.

Matt Ridley

Innovation Ideas Process Internet

Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.

Jeffrey Kluger

Family Good Car Pain Small Brand

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.

Michael Haneke

Children Romantic Child Parents Go

I think I'd do pretty good on 'Glee' singing.

Michael Clarke Duncan

Good Singing Think Pretty I Think

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.

Rowan Atkinson

People Lawyer You Know Say Become

I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage it's meaningless to copy something someone has done before.

Miyavi

Feel Someone Artist Copy Done Stage

I'm pragmatic.

Jon Ossoff

Pragmatic

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

Jonathan Demme

Late Rock London Whatever Sort

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Christopher Marlowe

Beauty Stars Art Romantic Evening

I worked at 'Mademoiselle,' and then it shut, and I worked at 'GQ' for three years, during which I was freelancing. I wrote for 'Vibe.' I did music reviews. I wrote for 'Time Out.' I was desperate to get into 'Entertainment Weekly' or 'New York Magazine.' Like, desperate.

Courtney A. Kemp

Music Time New York New Three Out