Top 35 Michael Herr Quotes

#1. You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert ...

Michael Herr

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#2. The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.

Lawrence Halprin

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#3. And I know, because I've been there, that there is a hellworld where you're always expected to have an opinion about everything all the time: a judgment, a take - a 'view,' in the most ordinary sense of the word.

Michael Herr

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#4. Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.

Michael Herr

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#5. The only way to survive is to intently focus on how the art world operates. Once you understand how things work, you can find a solution to the problems you are facing.

Mark Edward

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#6. Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.

Michael Herr

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#7. Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.

Michael Herr

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#8. What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts?
The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.

Michael Herr

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#9. Die, thou badger-shagging spunk monkey," said I.

Christopher Moore

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#10. Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other's parents. You can't pry them apart.

Jerry Spinelli

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#11. I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.

Ray Liotta

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#12. Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

Michael Herr

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#13. There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway.

Neil Gaiman

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#14. They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.

H.G.Wells

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#15. Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

Willa Cather

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#16. You could also hear the other, some young soldier speaking in all bloody innocence, saying, 'All that's just a load, man. We're here to kill gooks. Period.' Which wasn't at all true of me. I was there to watch.

Michael Herr

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#17. We came to fear something more complicated than death, an annihilation less final but more complete, and we got out. Becausewe all knew that if you stayed too long you became one of those poor bastards who had to have a war on all the time, and where was that?

Michael Herr

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#18. My life belongs only to me.
I let go of all the expectations
that others have of me.
My life doesn't belong
to anybody, except to me
and to Life itself.

Human Angels

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#19. I feel like my best work is in front of me. I'm in the studio now, and I'm having an amazing time making this new album. It's something I can't help.

Lenny Kravitz

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#20. For years now there had been no country here but the war.

Michael Herr

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#21. You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone. Not one of those people will still be using an iPhone a month later.

Roger McNamee

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#22. Every time I had a vision of myself lying dead somewhere, it was up there, in the Highlands.

Michael Herr

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#23. I'm not saying Senator Mitchell's report is entirely wrong. I am saying Brian McNamee's statements about me are wrong. Let me be clear: I have never taken steroids or HGH.

Jim Lehrer

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#24. If that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.

Michael Herr

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#25. If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war,

Michael Herr

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#26. And they were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?

Michael Herr

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#27. We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop.

Michael Herr

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#28. I hope my life will prove a useful & good one, to many people." - Vivien Leigh

Kendra Bean

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#29. American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.

Elliott Abrams

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#30. All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.

Michael Herr

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#31. The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.

Edward Norton

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#32. Somewhere on the periphery of that total Vietnam issue whose daily reports made the morning paper too heavy to bear, lost in the surreal contexts of television, there was a story that was as simple as it had always been, men hunting men, a hideous war and all kinds of victims.

Michael Herr

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#33. How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?

Michael Herr

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#34. You don't have to be a seasoned tactician to realize that your ass is cold.

Michael Herr

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#35. It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station.

Michael Herr

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