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 could see peace instead of this.
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Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending the war was not a question of turning off a television channel. And so, debating on how we got there and what judgments were made was not going to help us.
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The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.
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To be lovingly present through the primal, naked pain that marks aspects of birth, and to be lovingly present through the difficult, heart-wrenching ending that marks aspects of death is to learn about life and love. Fear may be strong but love is stronger. Learning how to love includes learning how to make room for and transform fear. Learning how to live involves learning how to die. Love alone is the most potent power illuminating the breath's journey in between these thresholds. Love is the key. Love is the dance.
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In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.
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Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.
