"Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few."

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Source : "The Mythical End to the Politics of Fear" by Norman Solomon, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2006.

William Eldridge Odom

#War Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Parliament Quotes

“I canâ€™t think. I canâ€™t work or sleep. My body aches for you. I can make you want me again. Let me try.”
“Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.”
“City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.”
“I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?”
“Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.”
“A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.”
“When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.”
“I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with cruel arrows to go on the covers of the celebrity magazines. The photographs show botched plastic surgery, raging eczema, weight gain and horrible clothes for maximum schadenfreude.”

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