Adrian Cronauer Quotes
It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.
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I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.
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Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any more than they only want to read about square-jawed heroes doing the right thing. I just write characters than entertain me and hope they'll be ones that other people want to read about, too.
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It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.
