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"From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had."

"The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply."

"So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before."

"Blinker Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency was a criterion for change, had continued trampling on the toes of orthodoxy."

"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."

"The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off."

"I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention."

"We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater."
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"They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening."

"All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business."

"I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches."

"The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones."

"I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you."

"These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip."

"Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it."

"I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio."
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