"While in the American academia the knowledge production on the Middle East in general and Syria in particular has been considerably transformed in recent years, the dissemination of these more updated views fails to reach the conventional educational system. For two main reasons: Politics can still subdue and censor views that are not endorsed ideologically, and academics have still not learned how to write openly, directly and, one should say, courageously about these issues."

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Ilan Pappe

#Educational Quotes #Writing Quotes #Views Quotes

“Islam is not a religion, it's an ideology, the ideology of a retarded culture.”

Source : "'I don't hate Muslims. I hate Islam,' says Holland's rising political star". Interview with Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2008.
“Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.”
“How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night!”
“I've honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.”
“He took a deep, shuddering breath. "Okay. I said it, it's out there. And I am fine now. So let's move on, shall we? What's the plan?”
“It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again. Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be. Somewhere, just as the platinum iridium meter guarantees the tape measure, a strict measure must exist for the art of this time and place.”

Source : Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”
“whenever I encountered a slide show titled 'Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds' or 'Celebrity Fashion Fails,' I'd have to stop and investigate because hey, it might be information I'd need in some unforeseeable future where I had become, for some reason, a fat celebrity.”
“A country song is a song about life.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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