"You know, if you want to meet a lot of Iraqi leaders, the best places are the hotels in Amman or in London. In general the government here is amazingly unpopular."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Patrick Cockburn

#Government Quotes #Leader Quotes #Amman Quotes

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
“We like to keep the show small. Honestly, where we moved the show to the UCB theater, we moved it to a smaller space. Even though the show has technically gotten more popular. And that is, only because we like intimacy and the ability to experiment more. We don't want to be like, "We can get 250 people in a week. So let's do that. But we have to be careful about who we book..."”
“The Bf 109 is, without doubt, the most satisfying and challenging aircraft that I have ever flown.”
“Famine, plague, death and war... that's a pretty good description of 1917-18. The war was meant to end quickly, but by 1917 it seemed to be set until the end of time. No wonder everyone dreamed of an apocalyptic intervention.”
“If you've taken the job to be the stylist for a collection, then I think it's important for you to really listen to the designer and look at the board. Look at the wall, look at what the designer is interested in, and then move on to that. But the designer also must not lose sight of the reason for their point of view. Otherwise it won't come across.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A continuum links peaceful law-abiding ideological Muslims at one end and murderous jihadists at the other.”
“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”

Source : Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.12, Publishdrive
“The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.”

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