"I wasnâ€™t like, boo hoo, Bin Ladenâ€™s dead, but I wasnâ€™t jumping. Americaâ€™s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his death, it becomes jingoism. People are drinking, dancing in the street, chanting USA like theyâ€™re at the World Cup, like they won itâ€¦ Itâ€™s sick that we turned it into a sporting event."

-- Jeremy Scahill

#Country Quotes #Drinking Quotes #Usa Quotes

“The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, thatâ€™s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.”
“If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.”
“Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent vast hostility of the elements, he rages against futility and asserts his right of being”
“The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.”
“The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right”
“None of us are too sensitive to live our purpose.”
“When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any subject, or being interested in anything excepting a religion which took care of the soul. As man doubted the primitive conceptions about religion, and no longer accepted the literal, miraculous teachings of ancient books, he set himself to understand nature.”
“Everybody's got their own personality.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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