"With Germany conquered, the Kremlin checkmated, Japan converted,……" — David Douglas Duncan
"With Germany conquered, the Kremlin checkmated, Japan converted, it became easier - safer - to peek around looking for someone to fear... and maybe do something about. Ideally, somebody far away, from a country about which almost nothing was known."
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10 Quotes by David Douglas Duncan
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So many people are exploiting the name Picasso - and, in a way, even the estate is doing it.
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Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and knowing nothing about Picasso, I had the audacity to knock on his door, became…
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War is in the eyes.
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My only rule: I never photographed the face of the dead, ever, out of respect for the families.
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Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.
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The major economies are not American anymore. They are Asian and South American.
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Gandhi was a strange guy. There was this simplistic manner; but nobody knows what it cost to provide the simple…
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Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam were perfect for Lyndon Johnson: 220 million against 18 million, water buffalo and all. No…
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Today, Japan is one of the few countries in the world where one hears laughter everywhere.
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More Almost Nothing Quotes
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I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost…
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Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character…
— Giacomo Casanova
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If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
— Marc Chagall
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What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's…
— Lee Child
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children,…
— V.S. Naipaul
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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
— John Cage
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say…
— Roy Lichtenstein
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And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
— Antonio Porchia
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My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied…
— Frank P. Ramsey
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The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe…
— John Templeton
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Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would…
— Dennis McKinsey
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