"A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half million in Iraq. A trade policy that immiserates continents. You can make a bomb out of anything. The ones on paper hurt the most."

-- Raj Patel

#Hurt Quotes #New York Quotes #Oklahoma Quotes

“Faith-healing is peculiar enough at the best of times, but applying it to football merits a special league of barking. Why would God bother to perform a miracle that enabled Sol Campbell to yell Oh holy Jesus, now I can win the ball in the air. It's been five years since I could defend from corners, brothers and sisters, it's a miracle.”

Source : “Spot the balls” by Mark Steel, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 1999.
“Poets tell many lies.”
“Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.”
“A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.”
“Lord make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be.”
“Bittersweet is kind of my own favourite style because I want to be able to cry to the same song that I also can laugh to.”

Source : "Interview: Icona Pop's Aino Jawo on Their New Album, 'This Is... Icona Pop'". "Coup De Main" Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.
“People always feel like there's a big split between TV and films: I'm a television actress, I'm a film actress. Maybe that's how it was but I feel like there's not that separation anymore. And actors are able to kind of flow between both worlds - and connect to both audiences.”
“I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.”

Source : Joe Hill (2010). “Horns”, p.48, Hachette UK

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