"In a post 9/11 world, in which the uncritical essentializing of people from the "Third-World" has been legitimized; Iraq and Afghanistan have been dehumanized in an attempt to disseminate enlightenment in those "dark" regions; the discourse of "honor killings" is prevalent in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan and has carved a niche in Western academic discourse as another instance of the incorrigible ***** of the Orient."

-- Nyla Ali Khan

#Dark Quotes #Iraq Quotes #People Quotes

“This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music.”

Source : "Country stars croon at the White House" by Karin Tanabe, www.politico.com. November 21, 2011.
“BE PURPOSEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL IN THE CHOICES YOU MAKE WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NEARLY INFINITE.”
“Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.”
“In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.”
“The real safeguard of democracy is education.”
“While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.”
“I support the boycott because I do not think at this stage there is any other way to make our authorities see and understand because they keep ignoring the rights of their citizens ... and at this stage there is no other way to affect change, because the authorities have taken hostage of the media, so perhaps this boycott can be a symbol of criticism being voiced.”

Source : "Winter Olympics 2014: Pussy Riot join campaign for Sochi boycott" by Robin Scott-Elliot, www.independent.co.uk. October 17, 2013.
“Id love to work in the States; Id love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.”

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