"The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real."

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David Rees

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“This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international community had pledged 'never again' in the aftermath of the genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s. Yet, we are witnessing today a different type of humanitarian disaster unfolding in Syria and Iraq.”
“I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.”

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“Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, is that myths are just myths.”
“In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in Uruguay under the military dictatorship, while in Chile one of the concentration camps was called 'Dignity.' It was the self-styled 'Peace and Justice' paramilitary group in Chiapas [Mexico] that in 1997 shot 45 peasants in the back, nearly all of them women and children, as they prayed in a church. What have the souls of the south done over the past few decades to deserve quite so much liberty and dignity and peace and justice?”
“We can never leave loneliness behind completely - it is part of what forms us.”
“If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit.”
“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.”
“Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.”

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