John Pomfret Quotes

Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.

John Pomfret

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There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

Robert Rauschenberg

RelationshipMyselfStrugglePain

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

Michael Ignatieff

GoodProcessPictureSeeingBig

We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision.

Steve Buyer

VisionGreatPeopleNationUnited

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.

Sonny Perdue

PoliticsOutCallGoingHelping

Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity.

Robin DiAngelo

PeopleWhiteMeanQuestionDepth

There are just some really beautiful people in the world. When you're walking down the street, or you're at a restaurant, someone catches your eye because they have their own look. It goes way beyond what they're wearing - into their mannerisms, the way they smile, or just the way they hold themselves.

Mary-Kate Olsen

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The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.

Dean Ornish

CommunityWaterFoodConnectionNeed

I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

Delmore Schwartz

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I don't need to be validated by academia, because that presupposes that academia is a pure endeavor and not guided by market forces, which is not the case.

Boots Riley

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I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

Antonia Fraser

HeartWriteRealizeAlwaysPlanned

I stopped eating beef in high school, and in college I stopped eating poultry. I am not a huge fan of factory farming and what we're doing to animals. I try to eat as clean as possible because I want to know what I'm putting into my body.

Susanna Thompson

SchoolI AmCollegeEatingDoing

Prior to 'Tokyo Drift,' the iconic perception of Asians in Hollywood films has been either the Kung Fu guy, the Yakuza guy or some technical genius. It used to be such a joke, to be laughed at rather than with.

Sung Kang

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