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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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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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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When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country's northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West.
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The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.
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Our violence is, as you know, cartoon violence.
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Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.
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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.
