"With the Israel stories, it was for me the most surprising way the title would fit in. I kept thinking about, for a lot of my Israeli characters, what it was like to inherit such a complicated and symbiotic relationship to America and to feel how tangled that is, and it's nothing that they chose to do themselves."

-- Molly Antopol

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Israel Quotes

“I canâ€™t help being a gorgeous fiend. Itâ€™s just the card I drew.”
“Authority is always built on service and sacrifice.”
“I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.”

Source : "You Can Talk Good Ideas Out Of Existence". Interview with Shella Reddy, www.outlookindia.com. October 24, 2005.
“So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure that E- Verify becomes mandatory and we have got to train and properly equip our Border Patrol.”
“We have a problem with several media taking only a part of the reality and not the whole picture. Some media in the world are more critical towards what's happening than others. It depends on the journalist, it depends how much information they have about the case and which perspective they are asking you from. All of these things can play a role.”
“Anybody who is a professional athlete who has a social media account on any of the networks, when they sign up for that account, they subject themselves to all of the criticisms and all of the praises that may or may not be out there. So you can't get on social media and complain about the people because that's what you know you're dealing with. You have to hear it. You don't have to respond. Me personally, I don't respond to the negativity. It's gonna be there. I read it. It keeps me grounded.”

Source : KSK Interview, uproxx.com. October 29, 2012.
“To me, attacking football happens when Makelele gets the ball and passes it to the central defender who passes it to the right-back who comes forward and judges the situation. If he can do something he passes forward or runs with the ball, if not he gives it back to Makelele who builds the attack again. That is attacking football. In England attacking football is giving the ball to Makelele and having him hit it forward no matter what, even if everybody is marked.”
“Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.”

Source : John William Draper (1875). “History of the Intellectual Development of Europe”, p.5, New York : Harper & brothers

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