War Of The Worlds Quotes - Page 40

• I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.

  Gene Cernan

  Children, War, Two

  "This much I know". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.

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• I was 12 when I did 'Super 8,' and when Dakota was 12, she did 'War of the Worlds.' Steven Spielberg was involved with both movies, so we both worked with Steven when we were 12.

  Elle Fanning

  War, World, Involved

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• My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

  Eric Liu

  War, Air, Chinese

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• By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den - Berlin. We are proud to say that our victory in Stalingrad radically changed the whole situation in the Second World War. And this victory meant that our Motherland had withstood one of the most difficult tests in its history.

  Aleksandr Vasilevsky

  War, Army, Victory

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• The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland and Auschwitz and the other camps - but, no one really talks about the camps that were here in the United States.

  Lea Salonga

  War, Europe, World

  "SOUND OFF Special Interview: Lea Salonga". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. November 11, 2010.

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• The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, Boat

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.529, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Cat, Land

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Paris must either not fall into the hands of the enemy or the enemy must find it only a wasteland.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Fall, Hands

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• Wipe out the entire defense potential remaining to the Soviets.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Defense, Wipe

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• There is no doubt that the absence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German Army, nor can there be any doubt that the appearance of a second front on the Continent of Europe - and undoubtedly this will appear in the near future - will essentially relieve the position of our armies to the detriment of the German Army.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Army, Europe

  Radio address from Moscow (November 6, 1941). Vital Speeches of the Day, p. 102, December 1, 1941.

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• Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Blood, World

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• This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Past, World

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• In three weeks Britain will have her neck wrung like a chicken.

  Maxime Weygand

  War, Three, World

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• The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!

  Erwin Rommel

  War, Water, Enemy

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• The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Country, War, Fighting

  Aneurin Bevan, Peter J. Laugharne (1996). “Aneurin Bevan: Speeches at Westminster, 1929-1944”

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• We are trying to prevent a third world war.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Trying, World

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• World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

  Richard Holbrooke

  War, World, Negotiation

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• The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  War, Philippines, Vietnam

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• That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  War, Views, Europe

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• In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  War, Mean, Land

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• Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.

  Elliott Abrams

  Country, War, World

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• There arent many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called Horned Pigeon. He had been on the run and hadnt eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Running, War, Book

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• If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, Cutting

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• All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

  Neil Simon

  Funny, War, Humor

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• One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.

  Marc Forster

  War, Book, Ideas

  "Marc Forster: The Eye of the Swarm". Interview with Jamie Lincoln, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 20, 2013.

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