"And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes."

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Dodie Smith

#Understanding Quotes #Ems Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me." "You don't know that." "Yeah, you're right," Stranahan said. "They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go.”
“You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.”

Source : Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The screenplays”
“Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south.”

Source : "Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War" by David M. Glantz, (p. 228), 1989.
“One of the loveliest weddings I ever performed was that of a gay couple. To me if you are a good citizen, you pay your taxes, you work, you should have all the rights and responsibilities of everybody else.”
“Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don't have to be ashamed.”
“In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser. To be a winner, we must devote time and hard work. To be a loser you do nothing, and that's exactly what you will get, nothing.”
“The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.”

Source : The First Three Minutes epilogue (1977)
“The idea of massive amounts of fame-having my face on Walgreens end-caps and pizza boxes-I don't fantasize about that. I'm happy with just being a songwriter. I'd rather have smaller numbers [of fans] that are really into what I'm doing than a massive amount of people that don't really know what I'm about.”

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