Tim O'Brien Quotes

In a war without aim, you tend not to aim. You close your eyes, close your heart. The consequences become hit or miss in the most literal sense.

Tim O'Brien

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I've followed Gary Oldman his whole career... I've watched the movies he's directed, like 'Nil by Mouth' - I've seen that five times!

Joel Kinnaman

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Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him.

Jennifer Connelly

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I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.

Robert Redford

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Gov. Romney's policies would be a clear departure from the dubious tactics of the Obama administration.

Jeff Duncan

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The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies.

Stephen Cambone

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Just in the last week of his life, you could have seen him at Walgreens or at the Electric Fetus, where he often shopped for records - an astonishing sight, like the Mona Lisa taking in her own portrait at the Louvre. Prince, paradoxically, was reclusive but always around.

Steve Rushin

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You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decision.

Tucker Carlson

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A steak needs fat to taste great.

Tom Colicchio

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The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

Rita Dove

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You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.

Rob James-Collier

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I wouldn't go back and be 25 again for all the tea in China.

Minnie Driver

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The center of all my enjoyments is the home wherein are my wife and children, and I have no wish to wander out from that home in pursuit of any pleasures that the world presents.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

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