Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.
Michael Herr
Recitation: by Male by Female
I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.
Joe Strummer
GoodBookThinkThinkingAmerican
I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.
Johann Lamont
EducationPassionChildrenSchool
We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
Maya Angelou
LearnMoreHumanSeeAlikeThan
If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.'
Robert M. Gates
HistoryWarPeopleGoWayTalk
For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?
Michael Caine
RomanticPeopleMePerformanceYou
No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.
Star Jones
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It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.
Mary J. Blige
LifeMistakesBrokenSweatBlood
If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way.
Monica Seles
MakeupGenerationYouLookBecome
I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.
Dick Armey
BelieveAmericaWillNationAttack
You don't always have to get an expensive gym membership. The important thing is to keep moving and to make it fun and have variety - it's the spice of life.
Christie Brinkley
LifeFunMovingYouGymSpice
Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.
Claire Danes
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Sometimes this going out in obedience to God's command is more dramatic than at other times... sometimes more spectacular... sometimes more brave... but always it is a venture into the unknown.
Peter Marshall
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