"I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East."

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Source : "Interview with Edward Luck, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General". UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. August 1, 2011.

Edward Luck

#Thinking Quotes #Middle East Quotes #Sensitive Quotes

“You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.”
“Google never knew how successful key words would be.”
“I train my chefs with a blindfold. I'll get my sous chef and myself to cook a dish. The young chef would have to sit down and eat it with a blindfold. If they can't identify the flavor, they shouldn't be cooking the dish.”
“If you want to survive in this world, you need to stop asking why people work together, and just start working together.”
“Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1988). “In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.45, Northwestern University Press
“We have so few women in Congress. We are so underrepresented and whether we like it or not, we are in area - in an era that still the women, the handful that are there, have two jobs: they represent the constituency that they're from, and they also represent the women of the nation or the state or sometimes as Maloney has done, of the world.”

Source : Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.
“I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.”

Source : Claes Oldenburg, International Council of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Tate Gallery (1970). “Claes Oldenburg: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum, the Tate Gallery, London 24 June - 16th August 1970”
“Tell me of a right wing-induced hysteria of the last 50 years”

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