"I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway."

-- Shimon Peres

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“I just want to keep learning.”
“Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.”
“I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.”

Source : AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. August 2011.
“We must continue to pursue the thought that we do not merely belong to the Kingdom - the Kingdom belongs to us.”
“My whole life, Ive wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.”
“At present, the United States, with over 700 foreign military bases, navies in every ocean, a programme to militarise space, and drone bases planned for all regions of the world, is increasingly perceived in relation to its hard power diplomacy, a threat to political independence and stability for many countries.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.”
“Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums,”

Source : "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall". Book by Banksy, 2001.

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