Bill Vaughan Quotes
I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.
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During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
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For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.
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'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
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The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
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Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
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Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.
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I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
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American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
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Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.
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I have either run private equity funded companies or been a partner in a private equity fund since 1982. I've had a front row view of the vital role private equity continues to play in building and keeping American businesses competitive in the global economy.
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WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the U.S. military had deliberately hidden information about systematic torture and civilian casualties, which were much higher than reported.
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
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I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.
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[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.
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The reason we're governing right now is because we defeated moderate Republicans with moderate Democrats. And people need to be patient about that and realize that compromise is not evil.
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I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.
