"Why has America's fringe left been making common cause with the Taliban, whose views on such matters as women's rights and separation of church and state are appallingly retrograde by anyone's standards? One reason may be that the Taliban seem to have mastered the language of victimhood, sounding like denizens of some college ethnic-studies department."

-- James Taranto

#College Quotes #Rights Quotes #Views Quotes

“For me, Marouane Fellaini has been one of the best midfielders in the Premier League over the last few seasons. If he continues to improve at United, weâ€™ll have a really good player on our hands.”
“I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien.”
“I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.”
“In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.”
“The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away.”
“A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.”
“There is a need to go deeper, to let myself go completely, to enter into the surroundings in the real fellowship of oneness, to lift above the outer shell, out into the depth and wideness where God is the recognized centre and everything is in time with everything, and the key-note is God.”
“I have a pretty wide range of musical tastes.”

Source : "Lee DeWyze’s exit interview". Le DeWyze's Final National Media Conference Call, idol.blogs.pressdemocrat.com. May 28, 2010.

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