David Halberstam Quotes
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
David Halberstam
Quotes to Explore
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
Tananarive Due
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There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
Rakul Preet Singh
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
Barry Ritholtz
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
Eamon de Valera
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
Victoria de los Angeles
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
Damian Lewis
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I've always believed in having a sense of balance and stealth.
Patti Smith
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I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.
Paul Auster
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My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest.
Sebastian Junger
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
David Halberstam
