Michael T. Flynn Quotes
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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.
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America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?
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When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.
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I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
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I think the older that I'm getting, the more I'm understand what a privileged job I have, and what an opportunity I have. Now I'm directing films and I'm getting my first movie in America off the ground, and you start to understand how the system really works.
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But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
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Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.
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There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America. And then when you tell them, they're not interested, because it's also a country where everybody's opinion is their opinion, and they really don't give a damn what you think. So it's a very odd experience.
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If there's one perk, it's being the quarterback of America's team and being able to make a difference off the field.
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Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.
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Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
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America is the biggest gang in the world.
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I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly.
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I loved to party with the Rat Pack; they were so much fun.
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He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
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I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.
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We can be whatever we want to be. We can be a country band if we need to be. We can be a rock band if we need to be.
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I do care about the direction of America.
