Bao Dai Quotes

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

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• Everyone romanticizes somebody.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Want
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• Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Want
  • Never
  • Box

• I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • College
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  • New York

• My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Done
  • Belief
  • Complaining

• I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Kind
  • Sucker

• I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Political
  • Focus
  • Evil

• In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Freedom
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Future

• I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Treat

• My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Daughter
  • Really

• Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Me
  • Courage
  • Girls

• For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Political
  • Wise
  • Successful

• My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Think
  • Always
  • Punk

• When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• I'm really just a normal person.

  

  Vanna White
  • Person
  • Just
  • Normal

• People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • War
  • Affect

• I think everything about my life is magical. I've struggled, and against most odds, I'm truly having the experience of living my dreams.

  

  Bella Thorne
  • Life
  • Experience

• We know the president of the United States has no facts. No facts to back up his startling allegation that the former president of the United States, President Obama, wiretapped him in Trump Tower during the campaign.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Up
  • Trump
  • President

• It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Men
  • War
  • Judge

• Even in London, where space was at a premium, churchyards were traditionally filled with trees, evidence of a lasting pagan influence.

  

  Catharine Arnold
  • Influence
  • London
  • Trees

• If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

  

  Bao Dai
  • War
  • Government
  • Won