Michael Herr Quotes
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Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.
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As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then that means nobody wants to read what you're doing anyway, so you're stuck.
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It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.
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Now the smallest Particles of Matter may cohere by the strongest Attractions, and compose bigger Particles of weaker Virture.... There are therefore Agents in Nature able to make the Particles of Bodies stick together by very strong Attraction. And it is the Business of experimental Philosophy to find them out.
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I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
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In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.
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Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.
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Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
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A guy has to have the want-to. You don't just make plays by a mistake, by accident.
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We can't keep begging or expecting people to give us an opportunity to make a movie or to represent our culture in the right way. They're not from or neighborhoods and communities so of course they can't truly relate to our experience. It's our responsibility to properly protect our people and to properly give them opportunities for employment.
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I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.
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I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.
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In Sweden, we have what is called The Finnish Disease. It consists of not talking much, or at all.
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Underconfidence breeds underachievement. Lou Holtz
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If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.
