War Of The Worlds Quotes - Page 26

• If you watch a movie from between the end of the Second World War and the mid-1970s, whenever anyone steps out in a white lab coat, they're there to offer a solution. They're there to tell you how the laser's going to save the day. They're going to give you James Bond's array of tools. After about 1975, whenever the man in the white lab coat steps out, it's to come up with some crazy idea that's going to bring ruin on everybody. "Let's clone dinosaurs!" And the last we see of him is disappearing down the gullet of the Tyrannosaurus rex.

  David Frum

  Crazy, War, Men

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• The reason I called the president Donald Trump a disrupter is that he came into office 70 years after World War II, 25-plus years after the end of the Cold War. Like any president, he didn't come into office with a blank slate - he entered with an enormous inheritance of relationships with institutions, policies and the like. And in my view he is much too quick to pull the U.S. out of various institutions and various agreements, and he's been much too quick to question the value of allies and alliances.

  Richard N. Haass

  War, Office, President

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• As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.

  Diane Ackerman

  War, Ice, Age

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.136, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

  Madeleine Albright

  Girl, War, World

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• World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Hydrogen Bomb, Optimism

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• Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Winning, Progress

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• We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.

  Ian Anderson

  Jobs, War, Thinking

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• John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  Isaac Asimov

  War, Records, World

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• Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

  Joe Baca

  War, Winning, World

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• The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.

  Michael Badnarik

  War, Government, World

  "Good To Be King: The Foundation of our Constitutional Freedom". Book by Michael Badnarik, 2004.

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• The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

  Emily Greene Balch

  War, Europe, East

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

  Ben Barnes

  Uncles, War, Average

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• My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Mother, Husband, War

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• February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

  Xavier Becerra

  War, Order, Years

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• I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don’t have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.

  Bjork

  Country, War, Iceland

  Interview with Mathias Augustyniak, Michael Amzalag, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 21, 2009.

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• During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

  Lionel Blue

  War, Home, School

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• We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

  Vanna Bonta

  War, Party, World

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

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• Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  War, Brain, Toxic

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “Bowen's Court & Seven Winters”, p.221, Random House

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• I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

  Larry Hagman

  Real, War, Korea

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• I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it.

  Alexander Haig

  War, Thinking, World

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• Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren't really interested in seeing horror movies, because they had the real horror right on their front doorsteps.

  Kirk Hammett

  Real, War, Home

  "Metallica's Kirk Hammett discusses vintage horror and geek bonding". Interview with Kenny Herzog, www.avclub.com. October 5, 2012.

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• In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.

  Herbie Hancock

  War, Iron, World

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• I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.

  Tom Hanks

  War, Hero, Gone

  "Captain Courageous: Tom Hanks and Capt. Richard Phillips". Interview with Katherine Heintzelman and Jennifer Rainey Marquez, parade.com. September 21, 2013.

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• One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, oh boy, six months after it was over.

  Tom Hanks

  War, Boys, Effort

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• Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  War, Judging, Mind

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