Michael Herr Quotes

Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.

Michael Herr

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• I love working the legislative process.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Working
  • Process
  • Legislative

• I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Future
  • See
  • Turkey

• In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Father
  • Think

• I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Thought
  • Ambition
  • Surprise

• This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Hair
  • Rip
  • T-shirt

• Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Mind
  • Moments
  • Happiness

• Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Work
  • Think
  • Doing

• But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Know
  • Look
  • Existence

• I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Child
  • Actually
  • Some

• It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Movie
  • Age

• There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Relationship
  • Taken
  • Comfort

• We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Her

• I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Music
  • Know
  • Insomnia

• Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

  

  Abraham Maslow

• Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because I didn't think it was important before, but because before, I was really focused on just paying my rent.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Important
  • Women
  • American

• My first letter of acceptance, to UMass - Amherst, came with an offer of a fellowship and a note from John Edgar Wideman.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Acceptance

• I used practically all the money I had available.

  

  Bernard Ebbers
  • Money

• If you want to write, you have to be willing to be disturbed.

  

  Kate Green
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Disturbed

• I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want. The thing is, I do identify with being black, and if people don't identify me that way that's their issue. I’m happy to challenge people's understanding of what it looks like to be biracial, because guess what? In the next 50 years, people will start looking more and more like me.

  

  Rashida Jones
  • Community
  • Understanding
  • Biracial

• I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Almost every day, people will say to me some version of, ‘You’re so much nicer in real life.’ I guess I come across as not nice.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • People
  • Men
  • Energy

• Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.

  

  Michael Herr
  • People
  • Animal
  • Vietnam