"I think that if most guys in America could somehow get their fave-rave poster girl in bed and have total license to do whatever they wanted with this legendary body for one afternoon, at least 75 percent of the guys in the country would elect to beat her up."

-- Lester Bangs

#Girl Quotes #Country Quotes #Men Quotes

“â€ŽW. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past might be a ruin or an archive but the means whereby we may understand it is--and always will be--ourselves.”
“It was not until months after going vegetarian that I started really learning about all of the health benefits.”

Source : Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.”
“From MARS Volume 3 by Fuyumi Soryo: Kira: â€œWhy do you go through all that just to race? I guess asking that is the same thing as asking why I drawâ€¦.probably because Iâ€™m aliveâ€¦.thatâ€™s all there is to it. I sense colors in you. Theyâ€™re strong and beautifulâ€¦.and sad. I wondered what your colors were for a long time. Theyâ€™re the colors of the sunsetâ€¦the blazing shades of a sunset that burn just before the darkness sets in. You said it was nothing, but thereâ€™s no one as alive as you.”
“Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is.”
“When I was 7 years old and my father [Pablo Escobar] tells me "my profession is that of a bandido (a bandit) that is what I do" - these are the words he tells me after the assassination of the Minister of Justice ordered by my father himself in 1984 - it's very difficult to react to that when you are only 7 years old because you don't realize the significance of the word bandido.”
“In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.”

Source : "Remembering the Forgotten Killer" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.
“Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?”

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