Saigon Quotes

• Saigon is hot, full of atmosphere, activity, and commerce.

  Brendan Fraser

  Atmosphere, Hot, Commerce

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country-it had all been done in our name. . . . The French city . . . had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the heroin phase.

  James Fenton

  País, Niños, Guerra

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• Queríamos que este país ganara la guerra tanto como aquellos asesores. Creíamos que ayudaríamos a conseguirlo informando de la verdad. Y así fue la indignación moral sobre este general y el embajador en Saigón que seguían negando la verdad que veríamos.

  Neil Sheehan

  País, Guerra, Ganar

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• Ruego a los jóvenes que viajen. Si no tienen pasaporte, consíganlo. Coged un verano, una mochila e id a Delhi, a Saigón, a Bangkok, a Kenia. Que te vuele la cabeza. Come comida interesante. Conoce a gente interesante. Vive una aventura. Ten cuidado. Vuelve y verás a tu país de forma diferente, verás a tu presidente de forma diferente, sea quien sea. Música, cultura, comida, agua. Tus duchas serán más cortas. Vas a tener una idea de cómo es la globalización.

  Henry Rollins

  Verano, País, Viajes

  "Biografía / Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Nadie cede el paso a nadie. Todo el mundo se inclina, apunta, se lanza directamente hacia su destino, fingiendo que es una apuesta a todo o nada. La gente se mira y lucha por el espacio de maniobra. Todas las partes están igual de decididas a conseguir el derecho de paso, insisten en ello. Se apartan en el último momento, dejando escasos centímetros de margen. El vencedor avanza, sin tiempo para una sonrisa de victoria, ya inmerso en otro concurso de voluntades. El tráfico de Saigón es la vida vietnamita, una farsa continua de posturas, faroles, movimientos rápidos, tenacidad y rendiciones.

  Andrew X. Pham

  Fiesta, Mudanza, Lucha

  Andrew X. Pham (2010). "Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam", p.75, Macmillan

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• I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as a foreign service officer with the Department of State. The government in Saigon was at the point of collapse and the [Lyndon] Johnson administration was preparing to send U.S. combat troops to prevent a communist victory there. I became convinced that the U.S. effort would not succeed because of the lack of conviction in the Saigon government compared to the discipline and sense of self-sacrifice among the Viet Cong.

  William J. Duiker

  Sacrifice, Government, Self

  Fuente: www.sonshi.com

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• Imagine that -- a country that's supposed to be a democracy, supposed to be for freedom and all of that kind of stuff when they want to draft you and put you in the army and send you to Saigon to fight for them -- and then you've got to turn around and all night long discuss how you're going to just get a right to register and vote without being murdered. Why, that's the most hypocritical government since the world began!

  Malcolm X

  Country, Army, Fighting

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• A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it.

  Janice Y. K. Lee

  Book, Chinese, Stories

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• I was 17 when I auditioned for 'Miss Saigon.' I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a year into 'Miss Saigon,' that I was going to be a performer, that I was going to be singing and acting.

  Lea Salonga

  Years, Missing, Singing

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• Cuando los helicópteros sacaban a la gente del recinto de la embajada estadounidense durante el pánico del último empujón del Vietcong hacia Saigón, yo estaba sentado frente al televisor gritando: "¡Coged a los chefs! ¡Coged a los cocineros!

  Calvin Trillin

  Gente, Finales, Sentarse

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• During the day on Monday, Washington time, the airport at Saigon came under persistent rocket as well as artillery fire and was effectively closed. The military situation in the area deteriorated rapidly. I therefore ordered the evacuation of all American personnel remaining in South Vietnam.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Monday, Military, War

  Ford, Gerald R. (1977). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Gerald R. Ford, 1975”, p.605, Best Books on

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• I took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it more seriously when I was in Miss Saigon. I needed to improve my technique in order to survive doing that show as many time a week as I was doing it. It's not an easy show to sing, so I needed all the help I could get.

  Lea Salonga

  Teenager, Order, Voice

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• Si un viejo general en mangas de camisa puede tomar Saigón, piense en 200 millones de chinos bajando por esos senderos. No señor, no quiero luchar contra ellos.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fighting, Thinking, Chinese

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• The International Control Commission isn't doing anything, it's never done anything. What good does it do to be on it or not? Before opening the embassy in Hanoi, I gave it a lot of thought, but it wasn't really a painful decision. American policy in Vietnam is what it is, in Saigon the situation is anything but normal, and I'm happy to have done what I did.

  Indira Gandhi

  Decision, Doe, Vietnam

  Fuente: sangam.org

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• Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of the past, yet one capable of healing against all odds. An engrossing yet succinct film that captures not only a major incident in Vietnamese American life, but also an important chapter of American history. A profound film that manages to confront us with the deepest sorrow while allowing us to be hopeful about what it means to be human.

  Nguyen Qui Duc

  War, Healing, Mean

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• In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.

  Lea Salonga

  Song, Book, Missing

  "SOUND OFF Special Interview: Lea Salonga". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. November 11, 2010.

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• One book that I heard was circulating the Green Zone was "Bureaucracy Does Its Thing" by Robert Komer , who worked for President [Lindon] Johnson in Saigon. This book is about the inevitably of screwing up when a country takes on a war with so little understanding of the country they are fighting.

  George Packer

  País, Guerra, Libro

  Fuente: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I did not feel - in President [J.F.] Kennedy's words - that we could win the war for [the government in Saigon]. When I sought the reason for the dedication shown by the enemy, it seemed to me that the leadership and charisma shown by Ho Chi Minh was a major part of the answer.

  William J. Duiker

  War, Winning, Dedication

  Fuente: www.sonshi.com

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