America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley Clark returned home angry and ashamed at their defeat and rebuilt all-volunteer, professional armed forces from the ground up.
I realized that a lot of people in my family had sacrificed for me to have the opportunity to go to a place like Duke. I owed it to them to finish. I graduated with a 3.6.
Music copyright and licensing laws haven’t kept up with technology or the times. The Music Modernization Act fixes that with a comprehensive set of reforms that will help musicians receive royalties they are owed while ensuring the public has access to that music.
God gave me a talent to draw. I ‘owed’ it to him to develop the talent.
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.
‘Barton Fink’ owed something to Roman Polanski. As a director, he always goes beyond the obvious narrative drift.
No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
Television does devour you because you have all sorts of responsibilities, and I really needed to renew myself. I think I owed it to myself. So I honored myself and quit. I think that’s a wonderful way to put it.
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