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Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes

We must not let ourselves be seen as rushing around the world looking for arguments... Nor should we let ourselves be seen as ignoring allies, disillusioning friends, thinking only of ourselves in the most narrow terms. That is not how we survived the 20th century. Nor will it serve in the 21st.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 16, 1927 - March 26, 2003

Topics

World Looking Thinking Friends Will

I am always trying to write.

I Am Trying Write Always Am

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

Age History Time Pleasure Fiction

You had to read what I wrote if you lived in L.A. in 1975 and cared about pop music.

Music You Lived Pop Read Pop Music

A lot of people don't know how to navigate: they think, once you become a Christian, you essentially have to become Ned Flanders.

People Think Christian You Know How

Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.

Resources Without Even Interested

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

Michel Houellebecq

Stupid America Country Intellectual

There's a thrill in flying by the seat of your pants - trousers, actually: 'pants' in English means underwear - because most shows don't operate that way. Network shows are repetitive.

Flying Way Pants Underwear English

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

Time Baseball Political You Cards

The rules of engagement when I was in Afghanistan were very flexible. When you're at war, you're at war.

War You Rules Flexible Afghanistan

It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.

Day People World Think Violence

I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal.

Life Myself Famous My Life See

My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.

Wynton Marsalis

Music Start You Lose Flexibility

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