"As far as I can see it, anyone who has a problem with what guys do over there is incapable of empathy. People want America to have a certain image when we fight. Yet I would guess if someone were shooting at them and they had to hold their family members while they bled out against an enemy who hid behind their children, played dead only to throw a grenade as they got closer, and who had no qualms about sending their toddler to die from a grenade from which they personally pulled the pin....they would be less concerned with playing nicely."

-- Chris Kyle

#Children Quotes #Fighting Quotes #America Quotes

“The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It's not a position I feel comfortable with.”
“In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.”
“My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.”
“I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.”
“In my view a jazz musician is a great musician”
“Other people's deconstruction of your motivations doesn't help you do what you do. You can't swallow and think about swallowing at the same time.”
“From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour.”

Source : Julia Margaret Cameron, Anita Ventura Mozley (1974). “"Mrs. Cameron's Photographs from the Life": Exhibition Held 22 January-10 March 1974, Stanford University Museum of Art”

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