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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks.
- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley Clark returned home angry and ashamed at their defeat and rebuilt all-volunteer, professional armed forces from the ground up.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but even then, air power rarely succeeds by itself in destroying a regime's ability to command and control its forces.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank force down the throats of developing countries.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Pitchfork' said something like, 'Michael Imperioli wrote a book that sounds like Lou Reed fan fiction,' which maybe it is. It's fiction, and I'm a fan. But it's not about me, and it's not a Lou Reed book.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't know if there is a 'Tremors 6.' If there is, we're not sure what that is yet. I know what I would like to see as 'Tremors 6.' Because I've been with this a long time. I have specific desires along those lines. But clearly, we have left the door open for a sequel.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
All enterprises and major players need to pay attention to the needs of the government of the country of which they are a part. At one level, it would be unconscionable for a company like Huawei not to be responsive to Chinese national-security needs.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.
- Genuine
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- Nov 07, 2020
The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.
- Shameful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yosemite Valley is like a tourist zoo. It's shameful.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020