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Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

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• In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Violence

• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Man
  • Library

• Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Parents
  • Question
  • Teacher

• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• My family never had a business background. We are artistes.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Business
  • Never

• I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Hair

• Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

  

  Hafez
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Happiness

• What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Research

• Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Work
  • Great
  • Saying

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • God
  • Smile
  • Vanity

• How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • World
  • Human
  • View

• I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Time
  • She
  • Kids

• In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Film
  • Risks
  • Documentary

• I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.

  

  Flume
  • Time
  • Like
  • Always

• I love the idea of embracing your curves and loving yourself while expressing it through fashion.

  

  Hayley Hasselhoff
  • Fashion
  • Idea
  • Curves

• New York City is the greatest city on the planet. It's the capital of the world.

  

  Andy Mineo
  • World
  • City

• There's an abundance of hope in Hollywood, as if it's fueled by the sun, and maybe it is.

  

  Bonnie Hammer
  • Hope
  • Sun

• But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • Way
  • Tears

• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

  

  William Blum
  • World
  • War
  • Military