"It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up, not just in Afghanistan, but at O'Hare Airport or on the streets of any city in this country, and locked up without access to a lawyer or court just because the government says he's connected somehow with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. That's not the American way. It's not the constitutional way."

-- Laurence Tribe

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“Cry Baby is just a character in this world that I'm trying to create, and the music videos are really important to me, and I've fought to obviously get all of them approved.”
“You create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well.”
“House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals.”
“A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.”

Source : Charles Philip Issawi (1999). “Growing Up Different: Memoirs of a Middle East Scholar”, Darwin Press, Incorporated
“I'm an emotional guy, so I don't have to worry about a girl trying to get me to open up.”
“A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.”

Source : Lisi Harrison (2009). “The Clique #11: Boys R Us”, p.136, Hachette UK
“As a child, I remember asking my parents when I was five years old, "How come if you are not Zionists, you came to the country?" I was surprised at myself that I asked this question. It means that it was always in the air. Then years later I understood it was because of the Holocaust, because they were refugees. They did not come as immigrants and, because of the illusions of the '50s and the late '40s, my mother said, "The world must be better." She could not imagine that it wouldn't be different.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”

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