Robert Dallek Quotes

The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, debated, and dramatized endlessly ever since.

Robert Dallek

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I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.

Joe Klein

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My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, it's only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.

Robert Shaw

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I'm ready to stand tall for freedom and get Washington out of our lives.

Matt Rosendale

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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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I can't really dwell on the past.

Amar'e Stoudemire

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I got really good at negotiating from a place of weakness.

Travis Kalanick

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Positive defaults protect you from yourself - and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests.

Tom Rath

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Rogers and Hammerstein were such a genius pair. They were able to touch on subject matter so far ahead of its time.

Ruthie Ann Miles

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As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.

Lucy Powell

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There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.

Lleyton Hewitt

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I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

Jonathan Krohn

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I had spent four years at Le Havre, and when they told me they weren't keeping me, because I wasn't good for the second division, that hit me hard.

Dimitri Payet

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