"Muqtada leads the only real mass movement in Iraq. It's a mass movement of the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population, and of poor Shia - and most Shia are poor. Otherwise the place is full of sort of self-declared leaders, many of whom spend most of their time outside Iraq."

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Source : "Who Is Iraq’s 'Firebrand Cleric'?". Interview with Justin Elliott, www.motherjones.com. March 31, 2008.

Patrick Cockburn

#Real Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Self Quotes

“It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.”
“I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.”
“I believe the impossible is possible to overcome I believe in miracles Born from love in everyone”

Source : "Tangled Press Conference". Interview with Becky Reed, diymag.com. January 26, 2011.
“I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.”
“I feel like today should be a perfect Meatball day... Let's just get wastey-pants!”
“Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.”
“It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.”
“If a patient became sugar-free and blood sugar normal on a basal requirement diet, the caloric intake was gradually increased until sugar appeared in the urine. The tolerance was thus ascertained.”

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