I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
Michael Specter
UglyMeWalkingCircleVillage
I was born and raised in a small village, and I didn't even think I was especially pretty.
Irina Shayk
SmallThinkBornVillagePretty
It's almost easy for me to write about a magnificent tropical village with orchids and dragonflies. That's intoxicating, but the United States is magical, too. We just forget this.
Luis Alberto Urrea
MeEasyVillageForgetWriteUnited
I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it's a quiet town.
Adam Derek Scott
LivePeopleQuietVillageLowKeep
I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection.
Lisa Unger
LifeLoveConnectionVillageLittle
I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.
Jose Saramago
FamilyRiverSmallBornVillage
I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.
Diego Della Valle
LifeLiveSmallBornVillageSquare
Pop was a devout Roman Catholic; I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm not the village atheist, but I exert my right not to believe, and I doubt I would have been very public about that were he still alive, simply just so as not to hurt his feelings.
Christopher Buckley
BelieveHurtDoubtFeelingsVillage
Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man.
Boy George
ManI AmPeopleGayPersonVillage
The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
Annie Besant
IndiaVillageSystemGreatest
My grandfather and his wife came to America at the end of the 19th century from Hungary. Everyone started out on the Lower East Side. They became embourgeoise and would move to the Upper West Side. Then, if they'd make money, they'd move to Park Avenue. Their kids would become artists and move down to the Lower East Side and the Village.
William Klein
MoneyWifeEndAmericaDownVillage
My father came to Chennai at the age of 16 from a village in Coimbatore. He was an artist and was clear he wanted to do something, so he came to Chennai and joined an art course for eight years before he came into films.
Suriya
FatherAgeArtArtistVillageYears
The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.
Sharon Olds
TimeVillageHorrorSameUsedHear
Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people. The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
Noam Chomsky
PeoplePeacefulTargetVillageDays
There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in.
Leslie Nielsen
WinterFatherPeopleWaitVillage
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
Julius Caesar
VillageRomeFirstSecondRather
In 1936, when I was born in the small Silesian village of Waltersdorf in the county of Sprottau in the then-eastern part of Germany, now part of Poland, the fine structure of the cell was still an enigma.
Gunter Blobel
SmallBornVillageNowStructure
I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.
Giles Foden
LoveFoodThinkCountryVillageGot
When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.
Eva Zeisel
MotherChildrenRestaurantVillage
Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on the river side.
David Hewson
LieRiverBuildingsVillageStreet
Since the whole village was poor, we didn't realize our own poverty. I was happy.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
HappyPovertyVillagePoorRealize
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
Thabo Mbeki
PeopleRoadComputersVillageWill
As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India.
Nicholas Kristof
JobMeDriveSomeoneEnoughVillage
The Jumble Shop would be one place where we'd sometimes accumulate down in the Village. I think it might be just a place that's unknown that was right around the corner from wherever it was that we met.
Lee Krasner
ThinkDownPlaceVillageSometimes
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