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Quotes by Vietnamese Authors
"Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!"
"It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me."
"Meditation is not evasion, it is a serene encounter with reality."
"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."
"Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside."
"During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions."
"We don't want to keep secrets anymore."
"We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population."
"Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them."
"If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations."
"Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty."
"Freedom is not given to us by anyone we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out."
"Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice."
"While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty."
"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."
"Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history."
"And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers."
"When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out."
"But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy."
"You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do."
"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."
"Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours."
"We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands."
"The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision."
"However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness."
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
"If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war."
"Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses."
"After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate."
"Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century."
"We advised them to do what they think proper against the war."
"I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California."
"Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children."
"You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win."
"I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America."
"In general, everyone wants to work and work more. But in fact, when a young generation has sufficient capability then we should create conditions for them to work."
"The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man."
"I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh."
"In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law."
"I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry."
"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free."
"There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world."
"Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do."
"From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism."
"It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers."
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