I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.
The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.
When you walk through the hospital, you waiver between feeling bad for everyone else and feeling bad for yourself. It's a war of the worlds - the healthy and the sick.
If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message.
There's always going to be a war going on inside of me. That's just, I think, my make-up.
After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.
Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States.
The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant.
I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.
I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.
I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Everything he touches I'm just fascinated by.
After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.
You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.
Hasten Little Maiden ... stop and listen for pearls of wisdom stop and listen as the river glistens...
The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.
Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.
