"No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country."

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Art Buchwald

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.”
“I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Woolly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. Her moody hues and subdued palate punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye. She is my true love.”
“As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.”

Source : "Jim Starlin Kills The New Gods". Comicon.com, August 2007.
“For years, I always thought it was hilarious that I was this fitness guru, because fitness was just a tool I utilized to help people improve their confidence. For me, it's never been about fitness. It's always been about helping to empower people.”
“The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.”
“I wonder whether being a scientists daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.”
“For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.”
“Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races.”

Source : "CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports", www.cnn.com. December 13, 2002.

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