A Quote by Dave Pelzer

I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim.

Dave Pelzer

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Dave Pelzer
American - Writer
Born: December 29, 1960

I get commercial acclaim because of critical acclaim and it is a chain reaction.

Vijay Antony

Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of.

Cary Fukunaga

I am not going to become a critical-acclaim-junkie at all.

Ekta Kapoor

Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exempt[ion]...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.

Thomas Sowell

When I became Prime Minister, I looked back on what was done before – what were the policies and actions before – and I thought that I need to be critical if I’m going to do anything at all.

Mahathir Mohamad

I got burned by napalm, and I became a victim of war.

Phan Thi Kim Phuc

There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?

Ellie Goulding

When you have terrorism, you have a war. When you have a war, you always have innocent lives that could be the victim of any war, so, we don't have to discuss what the image in the west before discussing the image in Syria. That's the question.

Bashar al-Assad

I became a victim of mean girls. I became the victim of myself.

Tyra Banks

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.

Khaled Hosseini

We took 'BFF' around to try and take it somewhere else because we were really proud of it, and it had gotten all that critical acclaim, and Twitter fans were going crazy about it.

Lennon Parham

Critics... They're like traffic cops. They say what they have to say, then leave, and another guy moves in ,and he has his say - and it's often just the opposite. The result is either critical acclaim or critical murder, and neither has any bearing on my music or direction.