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The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Alexis de Tocqueville

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

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The greater the difficulty the more the glory in surmounting it.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

They died hard those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy and they were lousy and they stunk. And I loved them.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.