"Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge."

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Richard E. Grant

#Challenges Quotes #Ongoing Quotes #Fields Quotes

“We can not imagine that an Arab population forming more than 80 percent of the Iraqi society will allow the article reading that Iraq is part of the Islamic world instead of mentioning that we are part of the Arab nation, as if they want us to be linked to Iran and not to the Arab nation.”
“I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.”
“Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.”
“No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.”

Source : The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.
“I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!”

Source : Kenneth Tynan, John Lahr (2002). “The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan”, p.21, A&C Black
“Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.”

Source : William Blackstone, St. George Tucker (1996). “Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia: With an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts Upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connecte”, p.300, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
“In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.”
“... when I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing ... and when he played it was like a rough sketch of what he was going to become ... this guy was our generation, and he wasn't in a suit .. he played a Howlin' Wolf song 'Killing Floor', and then we (The Cream) had to carry on the set. It was pretty hard to follow ...”

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