#vie

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#broken #had #his #johnson #man

Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries. ↗

— Lauren Ambrose

#clean #craziness #family #hiatus #house

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#korea #old #too #vietnam #young

Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#government #his #job #johnson #manpower

In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#bit #down #feel #front #go

What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#exciting #going #hollywood #just #make

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil. ↗

— Jeff Ament

#make #movies #videos

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#back #been #betrayal #done #espionage

The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#agency #away #backed #conducting #difficulties

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory? ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#did #failure #help #inadequate #information