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War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.


Kathryn Bigelow
Tags: Men War Love
Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
Paula Poundstone
Tags: Because Up Always
Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.
Bruce Dickinson
Tags: Get Out Things
I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next.
Chris Wooding
Tags: Work Me Want
In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.
Jose Padilha
Tags: War Make He
Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily.
Colin Ford
Tags: Work Me Like
I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty. I've done it all. I've worked as a clown, literally, at children's parties.
Jussie Smollett
Tags: Get Done Children
Justin Smith was one of the most underrated players in the NFL for what he did. He would sacrifice and do the dirty work, then someone else would clean up off it.
John Madden
Tags: Work Up Would
The green appeal of solar sailing - traveling by light, once chemical propellants have done their dirty job of orbital insertion - ought to be powerful.
Thomas Mallon
Tags: Done Job Once
In my home state of Delaware, we've done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we've made great strides in cleaning up our own air pollution. Unfortunately, a number of the upwind states to the west of us have not made the same commitment to reducing harmful pollution by investing in cleaner air.
Tom Carper
Tags: Great Home Up
I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.
Jan Koum
Tags: Society You About
Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.
Warren Farrell
Tags: Work Men War
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Cleaning up the mess in Washington is gonna take a whole lot of Iowa common sense.


Joni Ernst
Tags: Up Lot Take
If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.
Sonia Sotomayor
An unmarried adult who cannot navigate the welfare system has no choice but to work, but a married working parent is constantly evaluating the relative merits of staying home with the kids versus bringing home that second paycheck.
Philip Greenspun
Tags: Work Home Who
Messy stuff irritates me. I don't like messiness. If you leave something around my house, I'll tell you to move it back, clean it up, throw it in the trash - don't matter, just get rid of it. I need stuff neat, organized. And once I start cleaning stuff, I don't stop until it's done. Otherwise I'm irritated all day.
Russell Westbrook
Tags: You Me Like
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Kids like classic rock, and so do adults.


Wolfman Jack
Tags: Like Kids Rock
There is certainly greatness in the '60s generation. They changed our attitudes about race in America, which was long overdue. They didn't just stand up and salute when told to go to war. Women finally began to realize a more equal place in our society.
Tom Brokaw
Tags: Women War Society
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tags: Great War Society
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles
Tags: Men Failure Them