Vicki Lawrence Quotes

I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.

Vicki Lawrence

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If we continue to allow the federal government to live beyond its means, we will all soon have to live beneath ours.

Joe Miller

LiveGovernmentWillBeyondMeans

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.

Robert Hass

WarPoetryMeFeelVietnam WarMade

Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.

Jean Piaget

ChildrenGameRulesSayGamesOwn

Rick Owens is my desert island designer. I could live in his clothes alone, and I collect Ossie Clark.

Mia Sara

LiveAloneDesertClothesIsland

I kick and punch quite hard, and it surprises people.

Michelle Yeoh

PeopleHardSurprisesPunchKick

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

Michael Jordan

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It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

Lou Doillon

LifeMusicMeSingingMy LifeLong

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

Lord Byron

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I used to see Estee Lauder's ads everywhere in the subways of Beijing, and I thought how wonderful it would be if the model on them was myself!

Liu Wen

MyselfThoughtSeeWonderfulUsed

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

Judith Guest

PeopleMeCardsSome PeopleDeal

The Internet is a contest between people with the same name to be the person who dominates that online space.

Joshua Cohen

SpacePeopleNameInternetPerson

At the end of the day, I think people are starting to realize that if you say you stand for equality, it has to be equality across the board. It can't just be equality for people who look like me, are my gender, think or love like me. It has to be equality for everybody.

Jason Winston George

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