Top 28 Nguyen Cao Ky Quotes
#1. MY MOTHER THINKS I'M DEAD. Obviously I'm not dead, but it's safer for her to think so.
Marie Lu
#2. By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#3. I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
Ai Weiwei
#4. If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#5. After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#6. After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment.
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#7. And then when they picked me as premiere, I don't think I feel, you know, different. For me, the position mean responsibility, but that's all.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#8. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.
Dave Brubeck
#9. I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#10. Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#11. If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#12. The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.
Robert Breault
#13. Whenever you can, swap "Let's think about it" for "Let's decide on it." Commit to making decisions. Don't wait for the perfect solution. Decide and move forward.
Jason Fried
#14. We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#15. But in the West few men would risk bothering a woman. It was the one thing the frontier would not accept - Kilkenny
Louis L'Amour
#16. Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.
Sloane Crosley
#17. I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#19. I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place.
Brad Pitt
#20. He loved me, as so many have loved the children who turned out to be so different, "in spite of." I didn't want "in spite of.
George Hodgman
#21. During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#22. EMBARKING on the spiritual journey is like getting into a very small boat and setting out on the ocean to search for unknown lands. With wholehearted practice comes inspiration, but sooner or later we will also encounter fear.
Pema Chodron
#23. Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#24. The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble.
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#25. By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.
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#26. South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#27. From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.
Nguyen Cao Ky
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