"Part of the reason you see so little about this in the Western media is that Iraq was closed off from the outside world for so long under Saddam. But I think there's a deeper reason, which is that it messes with our assumptions - not just about Iraq, but about culture and human nature."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Annia Ciezadlo

#Thinking Quotes #Media Quotes #Iraq Quotes

“A win's a win, unless it is not a win, and then it's not a win.”
“I think the comedy clubs tend to homogenize the acts a little bit, because they force them to be palatable in way too many environments.”
“I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.”
“It's one thing to have an eye for the sport, and it's another to have a feel for the sport. He has both.”
“When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975 that the American Psychiatric Association took homosexuality off the list of mental illnesses - and in many states, including the state of North Carolina where I grew up, homosexuality was a crime. An arrestable crime. It still is, in many parts of the world.”
“I just liked to kill, I wanted to kill.”
“I can't think of very many people who work as hard at the craft of songcraft as Gord Downie does. It was life or death. Every syllable was important.”
“It's dangerous business, thinking you can make people over.”

Source : Lenora Mattingly Weber (1950). “Leave it to Beany!”

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