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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right.
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With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.
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My crazy fear is I'm always afraid my keys are going to fall down a subway grate when I walk over it. I'm afraid they're going to jump out of my pocket and fall down. Isn't that stupid?
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The narrow hallway was lined with framed photographs while the far end was dominated by a faux movie poster for Gone with the Wind starring Ronald Reagan sweeping Margaret Thatcher off her feet while a mushroom cloud bloomed behind them. She promised to follow him to the end of the world. He promised to organise it.
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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.
