Annia Ciezadlo Quotes
For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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I don't do things that are illegal.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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Those who are believers in God find strength from their faith in the face of suffering. They are compelled to give sacrificially to help those in need. And they have the hope that comes from knowing that, with God by their side, the tragedy they are facing is never the final word.
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Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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Physically plain people are perfectly able to see physical beauty in others, while people who are morally maimed are blind to goodness and decency. They honestly think it doesn't exist.Oh, they know it exists all right. They just never know which people have it.
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According to the Upanishads, the complete aspect of Truth is in the reconciliation on the finite and the infinite, of everchanging things and the eternal spirit of perfection. When in our life and work the harmony between these two is broken, then either our life is thinned into a shadow, or it becomes gross with accumulations.
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The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
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I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I was wearing a plaid skirt, though. It's like, do you think I'm going to stop and give you my phone number?
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Chaos can be incredibly creative.
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You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.
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I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.
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A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.
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All Italians are plunderers.
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The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.
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For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works.
