Phil Klay Quotes

The First Battle of Fallujah was called off in part because of the intensity of non-U.S. media coverage of civilian casualties from outlets like Al Jazeera.

Phil Klay

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BattleMediaFirstBecauseOffLike

I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.

Jennifer Egan

TimeIdeasStartPlaceKnowNeed

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

John Dryden

BrainyRunRiversHabitsUnseenIll

They only have to be right one time, the terrorists do, and we have to be wrong one time.

Robert J. Bentley

TimeWrongRightOnlyRight One

In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.

Ann Turner

GirlJourneyChildhoodPeopleMe

I just want to be remembered as somebody who paid his debts.

Roger Moore

WantRememberedPaidJustSomebody

Working improvisationally in my studio with dancers, it's completely different. We don't have any starting point; we don't have an end point. We don't have anything we are trying to show or do. The picture evolves from nowhere.

Lois Greenfield

EndPictureTryingStartingAnything

People cried nepotism every time I was on the field. But I played for a lot of coaches before I played for my father, and I started for everybody. He wasn't the first person who all the sudden put me in the starting lineup.

Josh McDaniels

FatherTimePeopleMePersonFirst

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.

Jonathan Kozol

HiroshimaMoreOldClassroomYears

I love kite surfing and mountain bike riding. It's kind of interesting; my kite surfing ability has probably deteriorated with the rate of Kaggle's success.

Anthony Goldbloom

LoveSuccessBikeMountainKite

Bin Laden was intelligent, well-informed, and low key. The people around him treated him with great deference, calling him 'sheikh,' a term of respect.

Peter Bergen

RespectGreatPeopleKeyIntelligent

I really wanna make hip-hop music, but I don't know how to use any of the tools. Electronic, computer skills, I don't have those for engineering or making beats. I don't know how to use a sampler well. I don't know how to use any of these things.

Ty Segall

MusicEngineeringToolsKnowSkills

I've always said that 'Dharma and Greg' is 'Romeo and Juliet' meets 'The Odd Couple.'

Thomas Gibson

SaidAlwaysOddRomeo And Juliet

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