"America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels."

-- Fareed Zakaria

#Dirty Quotes #Reality Quotes #America Quotes

“More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.”
“The Aegean sea washes Greece on two sides: first, the side that faces towards the east and stretches from Sunium, towards the north as far as the Thermaean Gulf and Thessaloniceia, a Macedonian city...; and secondly, the side that faces towards the south, I mean the Macedonian country, extending from Thessaloniceia as far as the Strymon.”

Source : "Geographica". Book by Strabo, 7 BC.
“I'm their biggest fan every Sunday they go out there and play. I'm pulling for them, for the people in New Orleans and everything they're going through. If there are three or four hours that people can get away from the reality that is existing for them right now, the uncertainty, the unknown, the Saints can bring a sense of pride to them for that short period of time.”
“I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.”
“The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.”
“Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround.”
“Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.164
“Whatever good there is in the world I inherit from the courage and work of those who went before me. I, in turn, have a responsibility to make things better for those who will inherit the earth from me.”

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