"America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy."

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Source : "Where Plan A Left Ahmad Chalabi" by Dexter Filkins, New York Times Magazine, November 5, 2006.

Ahmed Chalabi

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“I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.”

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“I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.”
“Your own self-will and anxiety, your hurry and labor, disturb your peace and prevent Me from working in you. Look at the little flowers, in the serene summer days; they quietly open their petals, and the sun shines into them with its gentle influences. So I will do for you, if you will yield yourself to me.”
“Nature is seen by humans through a screen of beliefs, knowledge, and purposes, and it is in terms of their images of nature, rather than of the actual structure of nature, that they act. Yet, it is upon nature itself that they do act, and it is nature itself that acts upon them, nurturing or destroying them.”
“To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.”
“Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.”
“In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.”
“The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.”

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