Michael W. Michalak quotes
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“We can choose our friends, but we can't choose our neighbors.”
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“In the South China Sea and underneath the South China Sea, of course, there's a lot of raw materials. There are very rich fishing grounds there, so there are some economic concerns in the South China Sea as well.”
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“From the United States, Vietnam is looking for two things. One of them is a very stable and continuing to expand economic relationship. Secondly, they would like to see the United States remain in the - Southeast Asia, acting as a balancing power to balance out China.”
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“We have this rising nation China. And one of the things we want to do is make sure that China's neighbors are actually bound to us, bound to the United States.”
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“Vietnam is no longer a war, it's a country. I think that that's very important to understand. And the Vietnamese - last time a poll was taken, somewhere above 80 percent of Vietnamese people have a very positive outlook towards the United States.”
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“And I think that Vietnameese see the United States as a source of markets, as a source of technology and as a source of this balancing power relationship with - against China. They - the Chinese and the Vietnamese have always had a very suspicious relationship of each other.”
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“For a thousand years, Vietnam was a part of China. And that thousand years is punctuated throughout by rebellions from Vietnam.”
-- Michael W. Michalak
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“I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.”
Source : Interview with Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2011.
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“A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.”
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“Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.”
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“Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens.”
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“I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.”
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“I wrote two plays before I was cast on The Neighbors. They actually got published, which was cool.”
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“Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.”
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