Michael W. Michalak quotes

“We can choose our friends, but we can't choose our neighbors.”
-- Michael W. Michalak

#Neighbor Quotes

“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.”
-- Michael W. Michalak

#Rich Quotes #Economic Quotes #Concern Quotes

“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.”
-- Michael W. Michalak

#Balance Quotes #Acting Quotes #Economic Quotes

“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.”
-- Michael W. Michalak

#Neighbor Quotes

“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.”
-- Michael W. Michalak

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Taken Quotes

“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.”
-- Michael W. Michalak

#Technology Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Chinese Quotes

“For a thousand years, Vietnam was a part of China. And that thousand years is punctuated throughout by rebellions from Vietnam.”
-- Michael W. Michalak

#Rebellion Quotes

“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.

“DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.”

“Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.”

“A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.”

“Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.”

“Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens.”

“There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.”

“I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.”

“I wrote two plays before I was cast on The Neighbors. They actually got published, which was cool.”

“Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.”