"It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that people can't connect to in any way. It's hard for Americans to connect to Arabic-speaking Iraqis in refugee camps or Pashto-speaking Afghans in the countryside, and having a character who is a vehicle through which you're allowed to make these relationships really allowed us to gain in an emotional weight that was difficult for us to do any other way to make it all human."

-- Rick Rowley

#War Quotes #Character Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“For as long as human beings are forced to live in a system that at every turn impedes the fulfillment of their basic human needs - not only for love but for creative and spiritual expression - they will try to compensate for this in other ways, including the compulsive acquisition of ever more material goods.”
“With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.”

Source : "My wish: Protect our oceans". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2009.
“I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.”
“The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli propounded a law that has been misunderstood by gamblers (and investors) ever since.”

Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.102, Macmillan
“Some things come with their own punishments.”

Source : Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.115, Penguin Books India
“I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.”
“Stolen kisses are always sweetest.”
“Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.”

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