"I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment."

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Source : "Dem U.S. Senate Candidate Calls Opponent A "Whore" For Israel". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 6, 2012.

Lee Whitnum

#Racist Quotes #Twisted Quotes #Comment Quotes

“When I was a kid I would get upset when people laughed at me when I didn't mean to be funny. I would always hear,'We're not laughing at you. We're laughing with you.' But I would say, 'I'm not laughing.”
“As climbers, we need to sacrifice our comfort, our safety, and arguably our sanity, as a tithe to the mountain...We need the mountains but the mountains do not need us.”
“To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.”
“I was very new to working in front of the camera when I started shooting Gatsby, so I set myself the mission of gleaning as much information as possible out of the much more experienced actors. The cast was astoundingly talented.”
“Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.”
“Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. Weâ€™re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.”
“We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.”
“Sometimes people have to remind you to aim high. Most of us are afraid of aiming high for fear of failure and our biggest failure is that we aim too low.”

Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au

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