"Confronting the US made him [Hugo Chavez] a target for demonization. Partisan and/or lazy journalism exaggerated his faults, ignored his virtues, and downplayed the influence of strident and on occasion anti-democratic opponents. The flip side is his anti-imperialist posturing so dazzled his cheerleaders they overlooked his flaws, flaws which worsened over time, and they created their own caricature."

-- Rory Carroll

#Lazy Quotes #Target Quotes #Opponents Quotes

“Nobody ever sees me. Thank you.”
“My sister is a chiropractor and she says I have an unusually flexible lower back, but I don't do yoga, and I don't feel like I'm very bendy.”

Source : Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. September 8, 2005.
“I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.”
“I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.”
“For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.”

Source : "Exitmusic’s Passage Is No Secret". Interview with Amanda Duberman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2012.
“Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.”
“Yeah, except that when I write pop songs I have pretty strict constraints that I impose on myself. 69 Love Songs is a constraint. That the titles have to begin with "I'"s is a relatively strict constraint. Charm of the Highway Strip is all travel songs. And I am free to change the plot slightly to accommodate something that happens to rhyme conveniently.”
“First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars and the great depression put together. All countries will be affected, but the poorest countries will be hit hardest. Secondly, the costs of inaction far outweigh the costs of action”

Source : David Miliband on Climate Change during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. October 30, 2006.

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