Michael Herr Quotes
We came to fear something more complicated than death, an annihilation less final but more complete, and we got out. Becausewe all knew that if you stayed too long you became one of those poor bastards who had to have a war on all the time, and where was that?
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
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Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.
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I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.
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What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.
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A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.
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My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.
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Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
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She don’t set no store to see a king. Her pa a king back in Africa, and they shoot him dead. Them Portuguese slavers show her what it mean to be a king-it mean you die quick like everybody, and spill blood red like everybody, and cry out loud in pain and scared-oh, fine to be a king, and fine to see one. Do them White folk believe this lie?
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If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.
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My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.
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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.
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You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.
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I always wished I had a song like that George Strait song, 'The Chair', 'cause it's basically just a guy trying to pick up a girl at a bar.
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We came to fear something more complicated than death, an annihilation less final but more complete, and we got out. Becausewe all knew that if you stayed too long you became one of those poor bastards who had to have a war on all the time, and where was that?
