Quotes
Authors
Oliver North

"And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II"

Source : "Oliver North Discusses His Book, ‘War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific’". "Your Turn — Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. March 9, 2005.

Oliver North

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“It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.”
“The only way to make a criticism of something is to really participate in it. I'm a completely capitalist person. I participate in commodity culture and the fashion world. High art is a money-making vehicle. We're not making art in a vacuum. We're not shopping in the woods. These are all things that we do within the larger system of capitalism. For me to critique it, I'm also participating in it. That's obvious, I feel. In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?”
“Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.”
“Our initial assessment is that they will all die.”
“Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.”

Source : Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1817, Delphi Classics
“First of all, people were not expecting [Donald Trump] to win. I still think they're in shell-shock four months later. Get over it.”
“Chemistrys a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.”

"And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II"

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