"As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it."

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William Westmoreland

#Senior Quotes #Vietnam Quotes #Public Opinion Quotes

“An unresolved past erodes beauty in the present.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“There will be a winner. There will a president-elect. But there will not be a defeated people. Tomorrow, we are only one country, only one Venezuela. Tomorrow in the country there are many problems that we have to resolve. Problems do not wait.”

Source : "Venezuelan election officials: Chavez re-elected as president, defeats Capriles". www.cnn.com. October 7, 2012.
“I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.”
“The majority of people who join law enforcement are doing it for good, moral reasons, but then there are the few who get through, where you go, 'Whoa, hold on a second. What's this guy doing here?'”
“As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.”
“You're gonna die. You're gonna die. And nobody's gonna care which version of the iPhone you used to make something on Twitter, or to go and post about your bowel movement on Facebook. And I'm not even talking about legacy; I'm talking about the fact that I personally feel most alive when I'm making something, and I feel least alive when I'm being led around by some obnoxious use of my attention that I wasn't aware of. To me, that's the thing. You can buy the jogging shoes and you can buy the Runner's World, but until you put them on and walk out the door every day, you're just a fat man.”
“A good hitting instructor is able to mold his teaching to the individual. If a guy stands on his head, you perfect that.”
“Oh, my other goal was that I wanted to talk about this area and this time in history. I wanted to talk about growing up in Oakland, a white kid, from this kind of generation of broken homes and listening to hip-hop.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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