John Olver Quotes

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

John Olver

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I've certainly felt alone a lot of my life.

Andrew Haigh

LifeAloneMy LifeFeltLot

A part of me was like, 'Man, do I even like doing this anymore?' That whole thing of 'I'm in my 30s, and I sing and write songs while people are fighting wars in Iraq.' You know? So everything had to have more meaning, and it couldn't just be about making money. So, I took a minute.

Maxwell

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Directing on a 90-day schedule, whether for a TV series or a feature film, it's crazy; it's a marathon.

Jean-Marc Vallee

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Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you.

Michael J. Fox

MeShineYouSayWillWhatever

Flip-flops are a privilege, not a right.

Michael Bastian

PrivilegeRight

I think that it's human nature to categorize and label things. That's generally the way that the medical and psychological professions work. You look at elements of what you have, and you are able to categorize it, and then you can cure it. That's generally what works.

Michael Finkel

WorkNatureMedicalThinkYouLook

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

Meryl Streep

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There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

John Phillips Marquand

LifeHeartYearsWarmthSeemsPhase

I loved Victoria Glendinning's bio of Vita Sackville-West. I also loved Michael Holroyd's immense biography of Lytton Strachey.

Stephen McCauley

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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Douglas MacArthur

FearWarCountryNowEconomyPolicy

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

Drew Curtis

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In a globalised world, so many of us move around so much. You lose things, but you also gain things - or hope to gain them.

Claire Messud

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