Neil Sheehan (Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan) Quotes
We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.
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My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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The only way to solve the problems now besetting mankind is to eliminate completely the exploitation of dependent countries by developed capitalist countries, with all the consequences that this implies.
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I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.
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I have been studying women's political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.
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Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.
