Vietnamese Quotes - Page 3

• Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil
  We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people

  Eminem

  People, Evil, Hip Hop

  Song: Bad Meets Evil

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• I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?

  John McCain

  Dark, Thinking, Years

  "News From CNN" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2004.

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• 'These boat people,' says the government of Hong Kong, 'they all want to go to America.' Well, I swear I don't know why, do you? I mean, take Vietnam. Why would any Vietnamese come to America after what American did to Vietnam? Don't they remember My Lai, napalm, Sylvester Stallone?

  Linda Ellerbee

  Mean, Government, America

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• It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian'. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can tell, no paintings or sculptures. The difference between us and the artists of the 1920's is that they they thought such a work of art could be made. Perhaps it was a certain naivete that made them think so. But it is certainly our loss that we cannot.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Book, Loss

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• President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

  William Westmoreland

  Brother, Military, War

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• The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.

  Walter Cronkite

  Carnage, Coverage, Convince

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• Well, let's say Asian. Some are Japanese. Some are Chinese. Some are Thai. Some are Vietnamese. He runs the gamut. And I actually happen to have a very dear daughter-in-law who's Japanese. I don't know what she's going to make of the film, but I say a few disparaging things.

  Jacki Weaver

  Daughter, Running, Law

  Source: collider.com

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• Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West, a rare combination of mystic, poet, scholar, and activist. His luminous presence and the simple, compassionate clarity of his writings have touched countless lives.

  Joanna Macy

  Teacher, Buddhist, Writing

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• I wrestled and played football in high school and in my last year, I started as a wrestler and actually had a fairly good record. But I hated to lose. I always gave it everything I had which, unfortunately, was not as much as I'd hoped for. But keep in mind, I feel like I got the most out of my ability. One moment that was special above all the rest was winning my last bout at the Naval Academy to finish the entire summer undefeated. That was thrilling, but what's more, it helped me in prison because the first time I got knocked around by the Vietnamese, it did not come as a total shock.

  John McCain

  Summer, Football, School

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• We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come.

  George McGovern

  Country, Son, Years

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• From 1962 to 1965 the US was dedicated to try to prevent the independence of South Vietnam, the reason was of course that Kennedy and Johnson knew that if any political solution was permitted in the south, the National Liberation Front would effectively come to power, so strong was its political support in comparison with the political support of the so-called South Vietnamese government.

  Noam Chomsky

  Strong, Government, Support

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.

  Pol Pot

  People, Pot, Mass

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• You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

  James Taylor

  Revenge, Enemy, Knees

  Song: Money Machine, Album: In The Pocket

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• There's two approved methods for getting a pedicure for a guy. Number one, you use your own grinder or... You have an eighteen year-old Vietnamese girl rub your feet and call you Joe and that's it!

  Christopher Titus

  Girl, Years, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Party, Political, Firsts

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• We have blacks and whites, Jews and Arabs, Serbs and Croats, and Filipinos and Vietnamese here. At the end of the day, everyone is each other's brother.

  Bobby Slayton

  Brother, The End Of The Day, Ends

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• Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of the past, yet one capable of healing against all odds. An engrossing yet succinct film that captures not only a major incident in Vietnamese American life, but also an important chapter of American history. A profound film that manages to confront us with the deepest sorrow while allowing us to be hopeful about what it means to be human.

  Nguyen Qui Duc

  War, Healing, Mean

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• What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which people fire machine guns from a helicopter at Vietnamese huts, with a light flashing when a hit is scored? What can one say about a country where such an idea can even be considered? You have to weep for this country.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, War, Gun

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky (2010). “American Power and the New Mandarins”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

  Mitchell Burgess

  Believe, Wings, Icons

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• I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!

  Jesse Helms

  Marijuana, Two, Smoking

  "For Helms, His Home State Is Source of Foreign Policy" by David E. Sanger, www.nytimes.com. April 2, 1996.

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• Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Party, Splits, Firsts

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• When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Mom, Growing Up, Mexican

  "Dinaw Mengestu on 'All Our Names'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. March 21, 2014.

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• Although I wasnt able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.

  Tony Hillerman

  House, Vietnam, Might

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• You remember all those phrases about how these people - Asians - dont value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese.

  Neil Sheehan

  Children, People, Phrases

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• Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Powerful, Men, Broken

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