"Being an American journalist can put people on the defensive. In countries where people assume the press is partisan, like in Lebanon, or where it had essentially become an extension of the government, like in Iraq, people tend to see a journalist as an agent of his or her government. That can be dangerous if the United States military is occupying their country, or aligned with their enemies."

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Annia Ciezadlo

#Country Quotes #Military Quotes #Iraq Quotes

“The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling into the hole of the "idea" he has dug for himself.”
“My interest in fashion came from my interest in the body as a central cultural figure, not from admiring other designers - but of course I love Mason Martin Margiela, and I love Sybilla.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“To be honest with you, I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist. I got way better since the early nineties, as far as putting words together. My best energy probably was the '90s, because I was new.”
“The weather is beautiful in Toulon and the girls are beautiful and I don't want to leave.”
“We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stoneâ€”crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisionsâ€”one has to live with them, and we try.”
“We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.”
“Europe has resurrected its pagan gods.”

Source : "The Loom of Time: On the Recursive Nature of Reality". Book by Subhash Kak, 2016.
“Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.”

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