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“You have to believe in yourself, that you're gonna succeed.”
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“The safety of the country is at stake... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat... No faltering can be tolerated today.”
Source : General Joseph Joffre's proclamation, September 6, 1914.
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“Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.”
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“Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.”
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“One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.”
Source : "Ringworld". Book by Larry Niven, 1970.
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“I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.”
Source : "Capt. Barbossa’s back: An interview with Geoffrey Rush". "Associated Press" Interview, www.ocregister.com. May 23, 2007.
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“I'm a combination of the Terminator and Bambi.”
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“It was as close as I had ever come to having power over someone, and I equated it with love.”
Source : Jill Ciment (2007). “The Tattoo Artist: A Novel”, p.16, Vintage