Robert Dallek Quotes

The disaster at the Bay of Pigs intensified Kennedy's doubts about listening to advisers from the CIA, the Pentagon, or the State Department who had misled him or allowed him to accept lousy advice.

Robert Dallek

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Don't make being a girl or a victim part of your stand-up act. If you encounter sexism in the business, don't bring it on stage; it's not funny.

Jen Kirkman

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Claims of a decisive 'turning point' in any election are often overblown - more often, such a moment merely crystallizes a change that's been days or weeks in the making. But you can make a real case that Obama's Jefferson-Jackson Day speech is a pivot point in America history.

John Dickerson

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The life of a model is so varied that I never know what will be happening from one week to the next.

Amber Le Bon

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So many famous iconic American songs are protest songs, and I think that the vast majority of artists will only continue to add to that body of work.

Liv Bruce

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Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals can't do that. They really are blank canvases, and we can project anything we want onto them. So the relationship is very pure and simple.

Jon Katz

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I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.

Douglas Tompkins

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I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.

Clive Barker

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I always say I'm Catholic in my complications and Buddhist in my aspirations.

Boy George

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I just love football. I've always enjoyed doing it - being outside with my mates, getting really muddy and dirty and smelly. It's something I always loved.

Ashley Cole

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Sooner or later, the headphone jack is going away. There are just too many reasons aligned against it sticking around any longer.

Phil Schiller

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I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production. And so I came back licking my wounds to New York, where I live, and started to write a script about a protagonist for whom the exact same thing happened: His life was falling apart.

Tim Blake Nelson

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Donald Trump I wouldn't trust as far as I could throw him.

Mark Cuban

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