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As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

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• It takes three to make a child.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Child
  • Three
  • Takes

• We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Feel
  • Child
  • Attractive

• For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • War
  • Service

• He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • War
  • End

• War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • War
  • Man
  • Desire

• I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • School
  • Child
  • Acting

• There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Brain
  • Child
  • Face

• My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Baby

• I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Risk
  • Neighbor

• As governor, I will always be willing to work with people who have ideas to offer and are ready to roll up their sleeves. That kind of teamwork will build a New Hampshire that will lead the nation and compete with the world. Together, we will help our businesses grow and build a stronger economy on a vision of innovation and growth.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • School
  • War
  • Career

• There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Courage

• Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Up
  • Situation
  • Dreaming

• In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • War
  • Peace
  • Vietnam War

• I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Child
  • Very
  • Concerts

• When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many mainstream people, so I was the ship, the captain, and the crew.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Up
  • Ship

• I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Bad
  • Shoes
  • Drawing

• I believe it is conceded that, notwithstanding the fabled blue laws of New England, a man may, without impropriety, kiss his wife on Sunday and possibly, if he have a chance, some other sweet-faced woman.

  

  David Josiah Brewer
  • Believe
  • May
  • Wife

• The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Daily
  • Christianity

• I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.

  

  David Tennant
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Nice

• As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

  

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