Haskell Wexler Quotes

The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no possibility of Nuremberg war crime trials, we're doomed to have it repeated.

Haskell Wexler

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• When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Give

• I feel like if I'm sick, I need flowers. I'm very open about saying what I need from a partner, and he needs to meet those demands.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Sick
  • Partner
  • Saying

• I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic. I aim to just look and feel confident.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Attention

• Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • American
  • Today
  • Imperialism

• Vivere me dices, sed sic ut vivere nolim

  

  Ovid

• Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Positive
  • Habit
  • Expectations

• Enlightenment should be a human right.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • Enlightenment

• I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Thinking

• Law without penalty is only advise.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Law
  • Advise
  • Penalties

• Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away". "If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny".

  

  Margaret Wise Brown
  • Mother
  • Running
  • Away

• It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.

  

  Neal Barnard
  • Running
  • Humans
  • Mentality

• I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

  

  T. Allen Lawson
  • Up
  • Art
  • Canvas

• Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

  

  Fannie Flagg

• The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

  

  Euripides
  • God
  • Care
  • Sorrow

• We can't keep begging or expecting people to give us an opportunity to make a movie or to represent our culture in the right way. They're not from or neighborhoods and communities so of course they can't truly relate to our experience. It's our responsibility to properly protect our people and to properly give them opportunities for employment.

  

  David Banner
  • Movie
  • Culture
  • Opportunity

• Our Afghanistan main problem is education. Over 90 percent of our population is uneducated. So what can you expect? The terrorists come from Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, saying the Quran says this, Quran says that, and the Afghans believe that because they speak Arabic, they think they know the language of Quran, and they know Islam better than us, let's follow them. So they simply follow them.

  

  Najibullah Quraishi
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Iraq

• Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they're caught by coyotes [...]. He says they consent to die because their animals and can't understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter how bad things seem, and sometimes, even when everything's against them, they win.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Understand

• The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no possibility of Nuremberg war crime trials, we're doomed to have it repeated.

  

  Haskell Wexler
  • Iraq
  • Vietnam
  • Nicaragua