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Robert Dallek Quotes

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.

Robert Dallek

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: May 16, 1934

Topics

Failure Time People More Clearly

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.

Jimmy Durante

People You Down Be Nice Nice Meet

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

Jim Costa

Life Water Agriculture Human Finite

I distinctly remember being very young, sixth grade maybe, and being at a party and hearing the mothers discuss the children. And the mothers said, 'Well, it's very clear who's the leader in the group.' And they were talking about me!

Megyn Kelly

Leader Children Me Talking Remember

Well, the bottom line is that I'm extremely pleased with 'The Stupids.' I'm pleased that it's coming out, and it should look good. It's nice looking, with the colors and stuff. I made it for kids, and I really would like them to see it.

John Landis

Good Colors Looking Look Nice See

If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.

Jeffrey Jones

Job You Want Employee Employer Hire

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.

Martin Scorsese

Good Time New York City Research

For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.

Jason Blum

Value People Reason Scared Laughing

Wormholes don't exist because the only way they would exist is if they were seeded with exotic material created by an intelligence far beyond our own. Something would have to make one.

Jonathan Nolan

Intelligence Way Beyond Own Exist

I think escapism is really important.

Jordana Brewster

Think Important Escapism I Think

I'm a shape shifter.

Annabelle Wallis

Shape

They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.

William Henry Ashley

Winter Spring Me Party Up Take

I have a visual imagination.

Sylvia Plath

Imagination Visual