"I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was another Christmas present from my clueless grandparents. One time when they were visiting, my grandpa asked me if G.I. Joe had been in any wars lately. I said, "No, but he and Ken got married last week." Every Christmas since then, my grandparents have sent me a check."

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Source : James Howe (2005). “Totally Joe”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

James Howe

#War Quotes #Clueless Quotes #Mean Quotes

“If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do.”
“I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“For me, fashion begins in New York.”
“Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do. ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose.”

Source : JOSEPHINE TEY (1949). “BRAT FARRAR”
“Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.”
“It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.”

Source : William Kittredge (2002). “Owning It All: Essays”, Graywolf Pr
“Saying he is in Afghanistan in a spirit of brotherhood, we have also vowed that we will not allow each other's countries, ever, to be used against interests of ours.”
“The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be good). Rather, his teachings and behaviour reflect an alternative social vision. Jesus was not talking about how to be good and how to behave within the framework of a domination system. He was a critic of the domination system itself.”

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