"I'm always surprised when I read a story that's reported from a great distance."

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Source : "From captivity to classroom". Interview with Christina Pazzanese, news.harvard.edu. September 12, 2016.

Jason Rezaian

#Distance Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.”
“Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.”
“In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.”

Source : Testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, June 12, 1956.
“My priority is to hang out with the ones I love - my family, my loved ones.”
“Poetry is the purest form of insanity.”
“When you meditate and still your mind, you will gain the wisdom of knowing things in this world, in other worlds and beyond worlds - it just comes to you.”
“I still enjoy the company of most dogs more than that of most people, because dogs are capable of uncomplicated enthusiasm.”
“Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,”

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