"The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart."

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Source : Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com.

Bob Kerrey

#Heart Quotes #Purple Quotes #Certain Quotes

“In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.”
“Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words.”

Source : Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.227, Vintage Canada
“There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.”
“I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends”
“Blues purists never cared for me. I don't worry about it. I think if it this way: When I made 'Three O' Clock Blues,' they were not there. The people out there made the tune. And blues purists just wrote about it. The people is who I'm trying to satisfy.”
“Sudan is not really a country at all, but many. A composite layers, like a genetic fingerprint of memories that were once fluid, but have since crystallized out from the crucible of possibility”
“We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.”
“I can't enjoy anything unless everybody is. If one guy is starving someplace, that puts a crimp in my evening.”

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