War Of The Worlds Quotes - Page 25

• What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.

  Dave Barry

  War, Humorous, Painful Death

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• My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but he was always a Sunday painter. At a certain point, he gave me his oil paints and I messed around with them, having no idea what I was doing.

  David Salle

  Father, War, Sunday

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents were in World War II and retired as officers. One fought in the Pacific and one fought in Europe. The whole family was in the war. I grew up exposed to it and hearing the stories, but the stories I heard weren't kind of the whole "Rah, rah, rah! We saved the world!" They were about the personal price and the emotional price.

  David Ayer

  War, Military, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.

  Bonnie Bassler

  War, Quality, Antibiotics

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• The history of the genocide perpetrated during the Second World War does not belong to the past only. It is a ‘living history’ that concerns us all, regardless of our background, culture, or religion. Other genocides have occurred after the Holocaust, on several continents. How can we draw better lessons from the past?

  Irina Bokova

  War, Past, Holocaust

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• Some European countries insist on saying that during World War II, Hitler burned millions of Jews and put them in concentration camps. Any historian, commentator or scientist who doubts that is taken to prison or gets condemned. Although we don't accept this claim, if we suppose it is true... If the Europeans are honest they should give some of their provinces in Europe - like in Germany, Austria or other countries - to the Zionists and the Zionists can establish their state in Europe. You offer part of Europe and we will support it.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, War, Taken

  "Iran Prez: Move Israel To Europe". www.cbsnews.com. December 8, 2005.

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• War among men defiles this world.

  T. S. Eliot

  War, Men, World

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.245, Faber & Faber

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• I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything else. Readers don't want to hear about anything else. They go gaga about love. If a lover in a story wins his true love, that's the end of the tale, even if World War III is about to begin, and the sky is black with flying saucers.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, War, Winning

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.185, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how many other just wars there have been? Not many. And the guys I served with became my brothers. If it weren't for World War II, I'd now be the garden editor of The Indianapolis Star. I wouldn't have moved away.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Brother, Stars, War

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• I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was typing other people's discharges and stuff. And my feeling was "Please, I've done everything I was supposed to do. Can I go home now?" That what I feel right now. I've written books. Lots of them. Please, I've done everything I'm supposed to do. Can I go home now? I've wondered where home is. It's when I was in Indianapolis when I was nine years old. Had a dog, a cat, a brother, a sister.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dog, Brother, War

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• To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

  Tom Stoppard

  War, Eye, Artist

  Tom Stoppard (2011). “Travesties”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave. I entered the houses, there were houses where the coffee and pita bread were left on the table, and I could not avoid [thinking] that this, indeed, had been the picture in many Jewish towns [i.e., in Europe, during World War II].

  Golda Meir

  Children, War, Coffee

  Golda Meir's speech as acting head of the Jewish Agency Political Department at the Jewish Agency Executive meeting in Arab Haifa (May 6, 1948) as quoted in Benny Morris "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited" (pp. 309-310), January 15, 2004.

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• I'm interested in things when I don't know what they are. Like "Hey, Ray, what the hell is this?" Oh, that's lipstick from the 1700s, that's dog food from the turn of the century, that's a hat from World War II. I'm interested in the minutiae of things. Oddities.

  Tom Waits

  Dog, War, Oddities

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2006.

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• It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.

  Al Yankovic

  Peace, Military, War

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• Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind of thing before, but yes I think it can be very easily done.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, War, Thinking

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

  Douglas J. Feith

  War, Reading, Kids

  "A Little Learning" by Jeffrey Goldberg, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2005.

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• My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.

  Georgie Fame

  War, Rocks, Years

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• Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

  Christopher Heyerdahl

  War, People, Degrees

  Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. 2011.

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• My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

  Darrell Issa

  Uncles, Father, Military

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• I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.

  Jeremy Irvine

  War, World, Firsts

  "How to Become a Star In 1 Easy Lesson: 'War Horse's' Jeremy Irvine (Q&A)". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 29, 2011.

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• I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Thinking, Should Have

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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• After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.

  Naoto Kan

  Country, War, Expression

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• Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

  Bob Dylan

  War, Boys, Nurse

  Song: Talkin' World War III Blues, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

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• World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and restoration of their sovereign rights, the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as it wishes, economic aid to nations that have suffered and assistance to them in attaining their material welfare, restoration of democratic liberties, and destruction of the Hitlerite regime.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Integrity, Rights

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• When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.

  Trevor Nunn

  War, Historical, Musical

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