Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Quotes
Our estimates are that none of them will come out alive unless they surrender to us quickly.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.
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The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
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I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets.
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I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.
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If I'm going to portray one of my idols and someone I feel... so strongly about, it has to be done right, and it has to be done 120 percent.
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Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.
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Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
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When you think about 'The Grapes of Wrath,' it's an American masterpiece, and a very long process goes into the making of such a book.
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What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals ancestors of modern humans. We have gone back twice the age of Lucy, six million years. And we see that upright bipedal walking goes back that far in time.
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As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.
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Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.
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Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.
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Great military leaders have to sacrifice soldiers; great captains of industry have to sacrifice people. You can't only look after the poor, and the weak, and the disabled. You've got to do what's best for the community, and that often means sacrificing innocent people.
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Our estimates are that none of them will come out alive unless they surrender to us quickly.
