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We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers. ↗

— Rob Simmons

#citizen #military #military bases #moving #nation

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. ↗

— Joan Didion

#having #price #question #recognizing #self-respect

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote. ↗

— Casper Van Dien

#action #action movies #also #carpenter #did

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#failed #first #freeze #i #i always

If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#anything #i #role

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#any #because #bizarre #elephants #killed

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#characterizes #good #intellectual #self-importance #things

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#dirty #doing #enough #i #i am

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#avoids #aware #clever #competent #full

I used to read every golf magazine front to back; I was addicted to Golf Channel, read Rotella, read every golf book. ↗

— Trent Dilfer

#back #book #channel #every #front