Neil Sheehan (Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan) Quotes
These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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I have a couture body.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don't get recognised much.
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Si pudiera dejar todo como está, sin mover ni una estrella, ni una nube. ¡Ah, si pudiera!
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Eneke the bird was asked why he was always on the wing and he replied: 'Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.'
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Xuan smiled at the thought of men sleeping peacefully next to those they would try to kill in daylight. Only humanity could have conceived such a strange and artificial way to die. Wolves might tear the flesh of deer, but they never slept and dreamed near their quarry.
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These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.
