"For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage."

-- James Fallows

#War Quotes #People Quotes #Vietnam Quotes

“An apology for America's values is never the right course.”
“I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.”
“Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”
“A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.”
“Jon Hamm is incredibly good at playing people who have secrets and are hiding aspects of their personality, and obviously Don Draper had a lot of that.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing to think about.”
“All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped-out parts are saying.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!”

Source : "Fictional character: King Henry VIII". "A Man for All Seasons", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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