Richard Holbrooke Quotes

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Richard Holbrooke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 24, 1941 - December 13, 2010

Topics

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Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

John F. Kennedy

FootballPoliticsYouGoSeeHole

Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher ethical or constitutional plain.

Andrew Breitbart

SupportRichFamousCountryBlood

Any time you audition and get it, you earned it.

Michael Ealy

TimeYouEarnedGetAuditionAny

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Stephen Kinzer

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Nobody wanted the 'Roseanne' show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat woman and her family.

Roseanne Barr

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The studio moguls were certainly bigger-than-life figures, but they were also tough and unforgiving street fighters to a man, redeemed only because they were also the butt of so many Hollywood jokes.

Michael Korda

ManToughStreetHollywoodButt

Fear is one of the worst, and most limiting, emotions in life.

Donna Brazile

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I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.

Cherie Lunghi

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The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

Comte de Lautreamont

FamilyGreatMenLogicWorthyMost

For me, drag is all about making people happy and entertaining.

Aquaria

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It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.

Alice Hamilton

MeImpossibleBelieveChicagoIrish

One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the rest of them are not so great.

Alicia Silverstone

GoodGreatMeRestTwoRecipes

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