"Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them."

-- John Abizaid

#Fashion Quotes #Military Quotes #Iraq Quotes

“With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made.”
“I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.”
“I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes.”
“A fashion faux pas is what happens when you're not confident with yourself.”
“I don't think that there's substantiated evidence that shows that voter fraud is such a rampant problem that we have to put in place measures that people have to pass in order to exercise that constitutional free right. Voting should be -- and is required to be -- a right that is unencumbered. That does not have tests that people must pass.... Anything put in place to restrict that right, or to make it more difficult for people to exercise it, should be outlawed, and should not be allowed.”
“Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.”
“The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods are mercurial, and this can be terrifying. I know, because I was a daughter of a mother with a changeable temperament.”
“In music the present is extended.”

Source : Ned Rorem (2013). “Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir”, p.326, Open Road Media

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