Manute Bol Quotes
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
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The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.
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If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.
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It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.
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I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.
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I cannot even picture myself retiring. What would I do? I'll always be doing something, asking somebody questions, even if there weren't a book.
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Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.
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I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.
