David Halberstam Quotes
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
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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.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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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.
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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.
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If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.
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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
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I've always looked old for my age.
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My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
It can be tough to find areas where Left and Right can agree. Consider the well-being of children: Americans often disagree about how to raise kids, how to educate them, even what to feed them.
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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
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But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.
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I think the larger productions in India are very methodical and pretty much on the ball in terms of work. When I say work, I mean pre-production and the homework that's required.
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I never fall in love.
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Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.
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Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
