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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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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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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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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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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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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He had seen trances before - wise men far in the east, who could feign death; a herbwife as she bent over her patient, searching for invisible hurts. But this was different. He could sense something here, within the circle cast by the light of the fire. A presence. Presences...
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Love is a hero’s journey, and the hero’s journey is a noble but difficult path.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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I think it's bad for human beings to be artists. It's awful. You want to do something but you're constantly trying to decide what you want to do. Let's just say it's no place like Hawaii.
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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.
