"All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him."

-- James Lileks

#Needs Quotes #Politics Quotes #Pistols Quotes

“I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.”

Source : "I'm fit and strong now. I feel blessed" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2007.
“No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn't give us the right to be less than we are, does it? We are decent people and we repay our debts.”

Source : Jean Kwok (2010). “Girl in Translation”, p.94, Penguin UK
“Theres nothing like Nashville for making records.”
“Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown. There is only one thing and that which seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing, produced by a deception, the Indian maya, as in a gallery of mirrors.”
“New York is very intense. Every time I go back to New York, I'm starting from scratch. You could have all these achievements - records, a tour - and then you get home and get back to the basics. It whips you into shape.”
“The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states.”
“My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me.”
“There was no way I could write a paper knowing that Andy Warhol and Boy George were partying at Danceteria.”

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