"Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop……" — Tom Wolfe
"Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal."
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87 Quotes by Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe has 87 quotes on this site.
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There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything…
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If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we…
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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious…
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A cult is a religion with no political power.
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Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
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Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
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I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have…
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On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely…
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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
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Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.
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God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of…
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We…
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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more…
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As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who…
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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will…
— Dave Barry
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
— Bruce Barton
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is…
— Jean Baudrillard
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved…
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
— Saul Bellow
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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
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My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it,…
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
— Usain Bolt
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