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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."
"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."
"Meditation is not evasion, it is a serene encounter with reality."
"During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions."
"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."
"Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history."
"We don't want to keep secrets anymore."
"Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them."
"Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours."
"When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do."
"And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers."
"Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"
"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."
"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."
"We advised them to do what they think proper against the war."
"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."
"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."
"I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America."
"I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh."
"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."
"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."
"From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on."
"This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam."
"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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