"Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam War, the phrase body count entered our vocabulary. It is an ambiguous phrase, inorganic, even faintly sporty. It distanced us from the painful reality of corpses, of dead, mutilated people."

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Source : Paula Fox (2011). “News from the World: Stories and Essays”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

Paula Fox

#War Quotes #Reality Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“It is utterly inappropriate for the president Donald Trump to be weighing in the design and acquisitions process of carrier ships at this level. Had a Democratic president done this kind of micromanagement, all the more so in public, Republican defense wonks would have been apoplectic. Instead ... crickets.”

Source : Source: www.bloomberg.com
“I'm kinda racist... I don't really like dark butts too much... It's rare that I do dark butts. Like really rare... It's like, no darker than me. No darker than me. I love the pool test.... If you can be like 'Yo, baby. I met you in the club. Let's go back to my house. Jump in the pool exactly like you are.'-And you don't come looking better wet than you were before you got in the pool then that's not a good look.”
“There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.”

Source : "Kenya to 'Christmases' for Seth Gordon" by Jay A. Fernandez, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2008.
“As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.”
“Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.”
“No matter how different our First Ladies have been - and as individual women they have ranged from recluses to vibrant hostesses to political manipulators on a par with Machiavelli - they have all shared the unnerving experience of facing a job they did not choose.”
“Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.”

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