Haris Pasovic Quotes

Many have asked me, Why have a film festival in the middle of a war? But they have it backwards. The question is, 'Why have a war in the middle of a film festival?'

Haris Pasovic

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• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Question

• Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

  

  Ed Balls
  • War
  • Wrong
  • Iraq

• One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.

  

  Oliver North
  • Country
  • School
  • War

• With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Important
  • War
  • Jump

• Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Future
  • House

• February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • War
  • Japanese

• In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

  

  Kate Adie
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Propaganda

• Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Time
  • War
  • Fight

• There's an ugly civil war side to revolutionary Boston that we don't often talk about and a lot of thuggish, vigilante behavior by groups like the Sons of Liberty.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • War
  • Ugly
  • Civil War

• 'I have no fear of war,' said Arthur Stuart. 'That’s when kings get to show their mettle.''You’re thinking of chess,' said Margaret. 'In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Fear

• Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Knowledge
  • Simple

• With massive arsenals still on hair-trigger alert, a global holocaust is just as possible now, through mistakes or misjudgments, as it was during the depths of the Cold War.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • War
  • Hair
  • Cold

• Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

  

  Jacques Chirac
  • War

• There's nothing I don't know about war. The stench of it. But I say that without any pride. War is a terrible thing. My hope is that you'll get that through looking at one of my pictures.

  

  Don McCullin
  • War
  • Hope
  • Pride

• In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.

  

  James Meade Kutless
  • Great
  • War

• Sure, I acted in films in the Third Reich, entertainment films, which distracted countless people inside and outside Germany from daily life during war.

  

  Johannes Heesters
  • People
  • Life
  • War

• It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a certain safety. Potatoes are one of the last things to disappear, in times of war, which is probably why they should not be forgotten in times of peace.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Money

• If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a 'philosophical conception' painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • Eyes
  • Wisdom
  • Blessed

• The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Black
  • Woman
  • Guilty

• Many have asked me, Why have a film festival in the middle of a war? But they have it backwards. The question is, 'Why have a war in the middle of a film festival?'

  

  Haris Pasovic
  • War
  • Film festival