Tim O'Brien Quotes

With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military.

Tim O'Brien

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 1, 1946

Topics

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I believed in God my whole life.

Andy Dick

LifeGodWholeBelieved

Any vehicle that conveys great songs and the ability to perform them, whether it's 'N Sync or the Backstreet Boys or One Direction, is all good.

Tommy Mottola

GoodGreatDirectionAbilitySync

Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire.

Robyn Davidson

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My feet are dogs.

Rudolf Nureyev

FeetDogs

First and foremost, I am most proud of how 'Hee Haw' did its part to help pave the way for country music to burst from its regional roots to remarkable worldwide popularity.

Roy Clark

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Kind of like Google crawls the Web, we crawl the social networks. Where Google analyzes links and Web pages, we look at the same thing with people. So we can tell, for example, who you interact with more frequently. Or if it's not frequency, maybe it's consistency.

Mike McCue

PeopleConsistencyYouLookKind

I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.

Michael Lee-Chin

MoneyCustomerWealthWayAgainst

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

Janis Joplin

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Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

WayThroughOnlyFoundManyForm

The myth of Naipaul... has long been a farce.

Derek Walcott

LongMythBeenFarce

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.

Sherwood Boehlert

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I'm a very determined person.

Kim Basinger

PersonDeterminedVery

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