#inning

South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#beginning #built #case #day #depended

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#motives #other #people #recognizing #same

At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#any #anybody #been #beginning #commanded

Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what's been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#back #been #beginning #brady #championship

I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#college #every #games #guys #happen

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#beginning #end #filmmaking #good #hollywood

If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#grow #heroes #in the beginning #you

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#career #go #i #learning #little

The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again. ↗

— Dick Ebersol

#away #become #brings #consistently #definition

I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before. ↗

— Greg Egan

#bit #far-fetched #given #hadn #happened