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" The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. "

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" A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars. "

" There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency. "

Richard Phillips

" My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners. "

" The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity. "

" I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man. "

" I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. "

" I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. "

Chelsea Clinton

" If you think it's going to rain, it will. "

" Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted. "

Steven Spielberg

" You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know. "

" As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. "

John Stuart Mill

" Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world. "

Jean-Paul Sartre

" I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why he's doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's just had a bad childhood and that's why he's eating people.' Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet. "

" Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure. "

" War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. "

" As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success. "

" I guess I'm living in the present more than the past. "

" Only the dead have seen the end of the war. "

George Santayana

" The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people. "

Marjane Satrapi

" There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. "

Niccolo Machiavelli

" War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. "

" Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks. "

" I've had no problem harnessing anger. "

" I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can. "

" I do believe in self-help. "

" Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Let's face it: the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned... but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave them felonies oftentimes when they had no violent crimes. "

John Hickenlooper

" I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up. "

" In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest. "