Ashleigh Banfield Quotes
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
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We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
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You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
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I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.
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The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution, these relations stem from the circumstance that the higher organisms, in the course of millions of years, have gradually evolved from simpler ones.
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You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
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I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.
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Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.
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I went to a Katy Perry concert, and I experienced pure bliss for the first time in my life.
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The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.
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I've done a lot of TV, but not film.
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I want to elevate you to take positions in law offices, in stores, on farms, and wherever you are capable of going.
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Help others.
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For the robust, an error is information.
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Hard work always wins in the end.
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White House cultures inevitably reflect the president's character. Jimmy Carter is a thoroughly honest, good person. So was his White House.
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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
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My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.
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Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.
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I've had some of the best and most traumatizing experiences at NBC.
