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Oliver North Quotes

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

Oliver North

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: american
Birth: October 7, 1943

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Hope Think View You Back Back Up

You know that you're part of a Spielberg production when you've got some aliens involved, but you really know when you're sitting there at a table read, and they say, 'Steven really wanted it this way.'

Jessy Schram

You Table Know Say Sitting Way

There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.

John Milius

Today Respect People Look Back Kind

If you have a problem, you have to recognize it and solve it.

Mauricio Macri

Problem You Recognize Solve

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

John Updike

Education Wisdom Children Parents

If I spent my career responding to critics, I'd never be where I'm at right now.

Roy Jones Jr.

Career Now Never Right Critics

You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan.

Mike White

I Am Reality Weird Feel You Say

I must say that in my early years, I was incredibly aggressive. I was working as hard as I could to build a business, to try to dominate a business. And I probably irritated a lot of people.

Michael Ovitz

Business People Early Say Build Try

Not once since becoming president has Mr. Obama linked terror aimed at the United States with Islam.

Monica Crowley

Islam President United Becoming Once

A lot of mothers want to be with their children. They can't afford it for this reason or that reason.

Michael Leunig

Children Want Reason Mothers Afford

I've lived so much life as a young man. New Orleans, we got terms, and one's like, 'He jumped off the porch early.' That's kind of what happened to me. I had to grow up really quick.

Jason Mitchell

Life Man Me Grow Early Young

First of all, the idea that natural gas is better than coal is a lie, especially when it comes to fracking for natural gas. It is a lie that was bought into by a lot of Democrats and a lot of environmentalists because I think they wanted to have a win against something; against coal.

Josh Fox

Lie Win Think Better First Against

If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed, genetic - goal.

Joseph Brodsky

Poetry Speech Goal Us Genetic Our