Michael Herr Quotes

You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . .

Michael Herr

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• Desert
• Zeppelin

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• My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Inspired

• Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • May
  • High

• For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Choice

• Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Hand
  • Go
  • Ecology

• The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • High
  • Day

• David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Work
  • Been
  • Netflix

• I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Runner
  • Weekends

• I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Trying
  • War
  • Autumn

• Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Learning
  • Survival
  • Neither

• I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Family

• My energy level has not changed.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • Energy
  • Changed
  • Level

• If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Going
  • Election

• I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Feeling
  • Practice
  • Painting

• Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Emotional

• At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • Time
  • Death

• If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body with incredible flow of the meat everywhere, it was beauty.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Time
  • Ugly

• The female body is a beautiful thing, and it should be embraced and celebrated.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Beautiful

• Oftentimes, I feel like the clock is on, and there's money at stake, and you gotta get up there and dance for grandma, and it better be great, and you better get it right.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Up
  • Great
  • Money

• DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

• With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

  

  Eleanor Holmes Norton
  • Children
  • Marriage
  • Merits

• There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.

  

  Donnie Yen
  • Up
  • School
  • America

• I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really be proud of. But it's got to be one where everybody is involved. Everybody: consumers, employers, providers, health-insurance companies, everybody.

  

  Max Baucus
  • Believe
  • America
  • Opportunity

• You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . .

  

  Michael Herr
  • America
  • Shadow
  • Desert