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We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.

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Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.
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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
Demosthenes
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist.
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By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line.
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To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.
J. F. C. Fuller
Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.
Bill Shuster
No enemy is worse than bad advice.
Sophocles
The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander.
Ramman Kenoun
This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.
Gustave Moreau
Reason is the enemy of faith.
Martin Luther
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Ian Mcewan
If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.
John Curtin
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
Henry Fielding
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Bertrand Russell
Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.
Francis Parker Yockey
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
Colin Powell
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller
I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.
Richard Marx
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel Johnson
I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.
Tancredo Neves
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Mao Tse Tung
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
John Chrysostom
Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.
Mark Poster
Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.
Sextus Propertius
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
August Strindberg
And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.
Lennart Nilsson