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ABBEY LINCOLN I go back to World War I. I even remember armistice day in school. During the war, my mother was bus...
HOLLY DIANICH
I was born in 1935, so I was quite young when the war started. I remember we were in Bath, and it wa... MARY BERRY Had my grandparents not emigrated when they did, I might have been born Jewish in Eastern Europe dur...
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I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC
My mother, who was in the Resistance in the Second World War, passed away at 96, and it was like she... JEAN-MICHEL JARRE
I was a little kid, 10 or 12, ... I remember exactly ... transistor radios had just happened. When t... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in Londo... HAROLD PINTER We bought this farm in 1955 as part of a partnership my father and three brothers had. That lasted u...
HAYES HARBOUR
The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now... GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO
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In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War. CHUCK JONES
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There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes ... MARIANNE MOORE
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I became inspired while I was listening to music on the radio. I felt the music in my head sounded b... BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ
After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big ... MICHAEL BOND It was something I intended on doing down the track, ... Now, if I had been a player in Australia wh...
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When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was al... GEORGE MCGOVERN
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER
When I was a young boy, during the aftermath of World War II, Germany was broken and in ruins. Many ... DIETER F. UCHTDORF
I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchil... ALEXANDER HAIG
I have to say that it was working with my grandpa, who grew up on a farm in Mountain Home, Idaho, th... JOHN BYTHEWAY Writing-wise, I started when I was 17. Whatever was bothering me, I could just write about it in a s...
KIIARA
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do someth... ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pac...
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The Caucus I joined in 1953 had as many Boer War veterans as men who had seen active service in Worl... GOUGH WHITLAM
I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second... ERNST ZUNDEL My hobby was the military. I had been reading military history, especially as it relates to the Civi...
MARC RAMSEY
When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and t... TOM HANKS But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and...
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The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, an... GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the...
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I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Secon... KURT VONNEGUT
I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country. GARRETT HEDLUND
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Perhaps I had been in another world before I was born, and did not remember it, or perhaps I would s... LEMONY SNICKET
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I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated wi... KEVIN MITNICK
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was...
ADOLF GALLAND
It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, ... KEVIN KWAN
It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to conve... LORDE I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who ...
JAMES ROSENQUIST
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I had studied Russian in college. I had gotten into it first through literature and then just really... SCOTT SHANE It was my fault Kate went in during the second quarter. I saw our lead going and it scared me a litt...
JEN MILNE I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a gre...
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When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It w... ANG LEE It was an April day and I went out into the garden and it had been raining during the night. I had t...
ALBERT HOFMANN After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we reno...
KENZABURO OE When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Be...
GRACE SLICK I was born in Breslau on October 5th, 1930. At that time, Breslau, now called Wroclaw, belonged to G...
REINHARD SELTEN
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a dip... RICHARD HOLBROOKE I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked...
LAURIE R. KING
Tolkien was, I believe, writing about his experience in the First and Second World Wars, where he wo... RICHARD C. ARMITAGE I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was...
SAM PHILLIPS
Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Sec... KARL MARLANTES
Too many people in the American media have lost any concept of loyalty to their country -- if they e... ORSON SCOTT CARD It looked like we had been bombed in a big war, the whole city was on fire everywhere.
DEAN DILLARD
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil W... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as i... MICHAEL KORDA Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a b...
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OLAV THON All three games have been great games. I think we finished real strong. After we cut it to one in th...
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When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as ... NOAM CHOMSKY There have been some wars that been necessary in some ways. I think WWII was an important war. If th...
BENICIO TORO There have been some wars that been necessary in some ways. I think WWII was an important war. If th...
BENICIO DEL TORO
It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq. DOUGLAS HURD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on t... CINDY SHEEHAN
Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful... SAMANTHA POWER As a child, I thought that war and peace were opposites. Yet I lived in peace when Vietnam was in fl...
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I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselve... SANDRA CISNEROS If it hadn't been for Bill Macdonald's book 'The True Intrepid,' I might never have ...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY
Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This ... HARALD ZUR HAUSEN
I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, th... JANE GOODALL I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.
BARBARA CASTLE Whenever I start a 'Potter' film, I get these dreams. The last dream I had, I was in a war a...
NATALIA TENA
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan... 
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