Robert Fisk Quotes

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Fisk

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I am more proud of Hillary Clinton's alt-right speech than any other moment on the campaign because she had the courage to stand up.

Jennifer Palmieri

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Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.

John Edgar Wideman

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You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.

John Huston

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America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

Steve Earle

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Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Sid Caesar

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My smile will always be broken, but I'll always be grateful for the chance to get to do what I get to do.

Trent Franks

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Juxtaposition is interesting to me.

Luke Macfarlane

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I've never turned down a fight in the UFC. Even when I was champ, I never turned down a fight.

Brock Lesnar

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As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling.

Arjun Rampal

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The greatest honor of my life was to lead these men in my platoon, even though it was a war that I and they disagreed with.

Seth Moulton

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America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still fundamentally British and speak with a British accent and feel very English.

Lily Cole

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In pursuing reform, we have to navigate uncharted waters. We may also have to confront protracted problems because we will have to shake up vested interests.

Li Keqiang

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