- Aware
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never recreate dialogue. I have often been asked by people, 'You must have made this up because this is dialogue, right?' Anything in my books that is in quotes comes from some kind of living historical document: a letter, a memoir, a court transcript, a newspaper interview.
- Conan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a promiscuous reader. I loved Nancy Drew books and Tom Swift - never the Hardy Boys - but I also read Dumas, Dickens, Poe, Conan Doyle, and Cornelius Ryan's war books. As to favorite character: I'm torn between Nancy, on whom I had an unseemly crush, and Edmond Dantes, the Count of Monte Cristo.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since United States military operations in Iraq began in 2003, I have visited Iraq at least 15 times. But unlike politicians who visit, the question for me has never been why the U.S. got into Iraq. Instead, as the CEO of Blackwater, the urgent question was how the company I head could perform the duties asked of us by the U.S. State Department.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few people know someone who would voluntarily go into a war zone to protect a person he has never met. I know 1,000 of them, and I am proud that they are part of our team.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Vietnam, Afghanistan was never about troop levels; it is about how troops are utilized.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a businessman, not a politician, but I am also a proud American who would never do anything against my country's national interest.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people we helped in the field, they know what the legacy is. The 40% or so of Americans that really can't stand the name of Blackwater, that's fine, I'll never really win them over anyway. And I really don't care.
- Needs
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the diplomatic-security needs in Iraq were an anomaly. There's never been a bulge of requirements that large ever before.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am never up for rain sequences because nothing can beat the excitement and thrill of natural rain.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020