"As Cindy Sheehan was gathering public sympathy as the Gold Star mom against the killing in Iraq, the Republican party decided to import an easier target to pummel. So they brought over the 'I-salute-your-courage, Saddam' religious fundamentalist crack-pot who can't tell us where the money went."

-- Greg Palast

#Mom Quotes #Religious Quotes #Stars Quotes

“When I was younger, I thought, 'Ok, I'm supposed to do this project because it'll help my career,' but that didn't work because I ended up doing movies that I worked really hard on but I didn't really like and they didn't turn out well, so it was like I lost double. Once I just started working with people and projects I believed in, everything changed and I suddenly had a career that I loved and that I was proud of.”
“Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people saw in him a disturbing fury. People, a lot them, don't understand fury. They understand anger and even hatred, but fury is one of those old words that have gone out of style. Jimmy Jim Bundrum understood it. It rode his shoulder like a parrot.”

Source : Rick Bragg (2010). “Ava's Man”, p.35, Vintage
“Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 Arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? Their conclusion? Of all world regions, the Arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights.”
“...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.”
“I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.”
“Where you place your focus, there will be your Heart and that will be the Spiritual Heart.”
“Life is hollow without health and freedom. To seek one while ignoring the other is folly.”
“I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.”

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