Greg Mortenson Quotes

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Greg Mortenson

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LifeEducationMy LifeAfghanistan

It's a lose-lose situation to get in a confrontation on the street. If you can break contact and get away, break contact and get away. That's what you should learn self-defense for.

Jocko Willink

LearnYouSituationStreetContact

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LifePoetrySuperstition

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Jeremy Collier

CourageMindBraveResultTrue

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.

John Fogerty

ShoesThinkBackCarryIdolEven

It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural course for nations, and diplomats, and those who publish newspapers, to speak to the established order. Seeking out the young requires a conscious effort.

Robert Kennedy

EffortSpeakEasyYoungOutOrder

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

Robert Capa

TruthBestTruth IsPicture

I loved being at the 'Times,' and they were incredibly good to me. I think it's a wonderful paper, and I was really well edited.

Ruth Reichl

GoodMeThinkLovedWonderfulWell

Obama's gonna play Santa Claus with the minimum wage. He's got no successes to brag about. He cannot talk about a robust job market. In fact, the very fact he's talking about the minimum wage is evidence there is no robust job market.

Rush Limbaugh

JobTalkingPlayTalkMinimum Wage

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

Mike McCurry

FaithProgressiveActivismLeft

I'm a big supporter of our United States military.

Michael McCaul

MilitaryBigUnitedUnited States

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

Chazz Palminteri

GoodViolenceYouBadMoviesSee

The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!

Anthony Minghella

BusinessMorningDayCookingParents

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