"I don't consider myself a politician or a hero. I'm a messenger. If Cambodia is to survive, she needs many voices."

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Source : "Hero of the Cambodian 'Killing Fields', Dith Pran, dies of cancer at 65", www.dailymail.co.uk. March 31, 2008.

Dith Pran

#Hero Quotes #Voice Quotes #Needs Quotes

“The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow and woodland, of hickory and oak and maple and hemlock and pineland forests, of wildlife dwelling around us, of the river and its wellbeing--all of this [is] the integral community in which we live.”
“I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“For a long time our son ws a little boy with autism, which was a certain kind of challenge. Now that he's a teenager with autism - and a teenager who notices girls - we're faced with something else altogether.”
“I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.”

Source : "Take a chance on me" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2002.
“He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his obedience cancelled their disobedience. On the other hand, he bound the strong one and freed the weak and bestowed salvation on his handiwork by abolishing sin. For he is our compassionate and merciful Lord who loves mankind ... Had not man conquered man's adversary, the enemy would not have been conquered justly. Again, had it not been God who bestowed salvation we would not possess it securely.”
“I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.”
“I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.”
“If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.”

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