"Reporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ..." They're trying to make people be as hostile and opposed to each other as possible because they think only conflict is news."

-- Gloria Steinem

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.”
“Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there's no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power.”
“Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah ...”

Source : Paul Bowles (1955). “The Spider's House”
“The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.”
“If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.”

Source : "In the Time of Gods : A Conversation With Dar Williams, Plus Chatting With The Sweet’s Andy Scott and Steve Barton". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.
“I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.”
“Most people are telling me I look horrible.”

Source : "What's happened to Melanie Griffith's face? Star looks frozen in time as she heads out in New York" by Rosie Gizauskas, www.mirror.co.uk. March 17, 2016.
“The real lesson of 9/11 that I think we have still to learn is that this is a world of interdependence, in which all of the challenges of environment and climate change, of jobs, of disease, of war and terrorism, are cross-border problems that cannot be met one nation at a time.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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