Robert Dallek Quotes

The CIA's official history of the Bay of Pigs operation is filled with dramatic and harrowing details that not only lay bare the strategic, logistical, and political problems that doomed the invasion, but also how the still-green President John F. Kennedy scrambled to keep the U.S. from entering into a full conflict with Cuba.

Robert Dallek

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The culture of the U.S. military is such that human enhancement is accepted as a goal, taking people beyond the norm. There are so many resources going into that kind of research.

Jessa Gamble

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I'm always looking for a reason to say no when I'm approached about a big studio tentpole because your fear is will you be consumed into the anonymous machine, and it will suck out any specificity and point of view that you might hope to express.

Matt Reeves

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Jean Genet

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Hearing about a visual artist's approach can change the way you think about songwriting.

St. Lucia

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I'm interested in pursuing roles that allow me to push against my own walls, my own constraints as a human being, and to find out where I'm capable of going. In real life, I'm not very good at feeling emotions, so I like to do it through my work.

Tom Cullen

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If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, you see something different - a different attitude or brushstroke. 'Hamlet' is like an entire gallery of old masters.

Rory Kinnear

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Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

Ron Silver

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The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

Lucy Larcom

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I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.

Judith Rossner

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I don't feel like God called me to be a gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer; he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.

Josh Turner

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I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.

Jonathan Miller

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A strained hamstring is a muscle tear and very easy to take care of with proper therapy. The greatest problem for a sprinter coming back from a hamstring injury is getting yourself to a point where you are confident mentally that all the muscles are going to be firing.

Donovan Bailey

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