The original ‘Guild Wars’ was heavily instanced: you’d have these outposts where everybody was in, but as soon as you got out of town, it became very lonely very fast because you were going for an instance of you and your party.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
I’m always having a crisis of faith, with everything. People who are certain are terrifying to me. That’s how religious wars get started.
I didn’t know much about Texas when I moved there for graduate school. In my first or second semester, I took a class in life and literature of the Southwest, and that’s where I first heard about these events along the border in 1915-1918, what Anglos called the Bandit Wars.
If I could time-travel, I would either go to the ’70s and watch the first ‘Star Wars’ film the day it opened, or to 1880s London, during the Jack the Ripper era, and experience the true grossness of that time.
There were a lot of great memories around ‘Star Wars.’ It was a foundation – probably for my interest in movies.
I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, ‘Earth’ meaning the riches of the earth, simple physical work. That is why there were wars, the movement of frontiers, war over riches.
What we have to remember is we want to utilize the tremendous intellect that we have in the military to win wars. I’ve talked to a lot of the generals, a lot of our advanced people. And believe me, if we gave them the mission, which is what the commander-in-chief does, they would be able to carry it out.
‘Star Wars’ was something that I was definitely interested in. Whether or not I was really involved isn’t something that I should probably disclose.
The dieting wars have got to stop.
That’s why ‘Star Wars’ is appealing. You watch someone fight the perilous monster.
Periodically, ‘The New York Times’ runs a business news story lamenting how few women still make it to the top in the Wall Street boys’ club. Could it be that women are choosing to be conscientious objectors in these wars of one against all?
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.
Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines.
My friends and family are not really fixated on the specifics of ‘Star Wars.’ My parents don’t know anything about ‘Star Wars.’ They’ve never watched a ‘Star Wars’ film.
Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith – even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it’s like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head.
As recently as the September 11 event, the majority of Muslims were, as the rest of the world was, against its violence. However, if despair and humiliation continue in the population of more than one billion Muslims, the world will face increasing risks of conflicts and wars.
As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation’s wars.
‘The Iliad’ is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little. But whatever agenda I have gets buried in a work this great. If you’re being honest, you realize that, as an artist, you’re not a policy maker.
To me, it wasn’t ‘Star Wars’ that shaped me; it was more ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ and, nowadays, ‘Louie’ and ‘Girls.’
I do feel a wave come over me when I hear those two words, ‘Star’ and ‘Wars,’ said together. I feel tense, shut up, and stare into the middle distance.
‘Star Wars’ came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking into the land of Oz. All you wanted to do was see it again and go back and see more of it. That feeling is not easy to reproduce.
It’s either ‘Saw’ made for $4 million or ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ et cetera being made for $150 million. So the $30 and $40 million films don’t get made unless they’re maybe ‘Ride Along.’ But I don’t really know why. I don’t get paid to know why.
I’ve always wanted to make a film about the Tong Wars, the rioting and the crime factions in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the early part of the last century.
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
Our employees and competitors thought we were docile. We want to be defiantly disruptive. I don’t mean necessarily by launching price wars but by being the best at the basics – having the best customer service, the best on-time performance, the best coffee – in a thoughtful, not a testosterone-laced, way.
The U.S. has taken an active role in wars from Libya to the Central African Republic, sent special ops forces into countries from Somalia to South Sudan, conducted airstrikes and abduction missions, even put boots on the ground in countries where it pledged it would not.
There’s this romantic idea that’s built up around war. But the pragmatic view is there are tons of people of my generation who have lost their lives, lost their marriages, or lost their health as a consequence of being sent to wars which could have been avoided.
My hope is that, in years to come, people will still be watching ‘The Clone Wars,’ and they’ll still hold up. That’s my goal – time tested.
Acting in ‘Star Wars’ I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn’t even know who the cantaloupes were.
Peace is something very dear. If you’ve been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.
The only reason an empire ever fights wars is to maintain empire.
I love ‘Star Wars,’ you know, and I can’t remember the last story meeting I’ve been in where ‘Star Wars’ wasn’t referenced. It’s so perfect in so many ways.
Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them.
Well, you know, we all grew up as ‘Star Wars’ fans.
Virtually all of Africa’s civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced – and met – tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.
We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we’ve been in wars ever since. We’re not a pacific people.
Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
Don’t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
Women don’t go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.
I think we would find, if you study the conduct of guerilla-type wars, that the Obama Administration has hit more targets on a broader scale than the Nixon Administration ever did.
I grew up with the religion of ‘Star Wars,’ frankly. That’s when I realized there is something bigger out there… and it’s called The Force.
The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation.
None of the films I’ve done was designed for a mass audience, except for ‘Indiana Jones.’ Nobody in their right mind thought ‘American Graffiti’ or ‘Star Wars’ would work.
I can’t get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!
When I got ‘Youth,’ I also got a small role in ‘Star Wars.’ I didn’t know what to do. I decided to choose based on the character.
I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.
The original release of ‘Star Wars’ was literally the first movie I remember seeing in a theater. Four years old was probably too young – I recall believing, for some time, that Darth Vader was a robot.
It was the money from ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Jaws’ that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.
