Adrian Cronauer Quotes
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.
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I tried snowboarding, and that scared the hell out of me.
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Whenever I get days off, I go home, or friends and family come up. I'm in contact with them every day, so it's like we live next door, but obviously we live in two different countries. Football is my job, and everyone around me has given me the opportunity to purely concentrate on football, and everyone else worries about everything else.
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
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For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory and employment theory.
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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.
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I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
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You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.
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Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.
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I moved to New York for school right after I turned 18, but I started getting into trouble - so I went home to L.A. to regroup.
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We never had such a violation of human rights. In fact, we have had no human rights case here in the Philippines, even to this day.
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My parents are from a whole different culture. My parents are from small-town Louisiana. It's like, if it walk like a duck, talk like a duck, then it's a duck. And if you ain't quacking, you ain't no duck.
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Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.
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It’s very exciting we have a new president. It would have been nice if he ended with a 500 point up instead of down. It’s certainly very exciting. His speech was great last night. I thought it was inspiring in every way. And, hopefully he’s going to do a great job. But the way I look at it, he cannot do worse than Bush.
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China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the struggle and determination to triumph that inspires creative expression.
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In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.
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I was faced more with apathy than opposition.
