Michael Herr Quotes
If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.
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I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.
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Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
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I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
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There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
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Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.
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The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.
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If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.
