W. Averell Harriman Quotes
This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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Actors don't have real value.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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Life is brutal that way...the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
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Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.
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I think Larry is right to notice that the contradictions are catching the allies up already. It's one of those cases where even before you begin bombing the children, the coalition is falling apart. And that's good news. And I'm very much in favor of it. Some Powell or other is messing up the war.
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This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.
