Raymond T. Odierno Quotes

The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there... You have Kurds who were displaced by these Arabs that were moved up there by Saddam Hussein. Kurds have been displaced from Kirkuk for hundreds of years.

Raymond T. Odierno

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• I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.

  

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• But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.

  

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• Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

  

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• Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

  

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• As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.

  

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• I think it's really important to enlarge the issue behind abortion. I have been serving for over two decades and I have seen year in and year out largely the Republicans voting against women's contraception, family planning.

  

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• I think part of growing up is not actually finding a fixed idea of who you are, but rather being like, "Oh, wait. I'm different all the time. I'm going to change every second and grow and be fluid." And that's okay.

  

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• Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

  

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• The one cool thing about being underground is that it gives you such freedom. You have to be so on top of it, releasing singles all the time, doing videos all the time, and I don't know if I'm ready to give up that freedom.

  

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• Even when we do not create children's fears, when they come to us with fears ready-made and built-in, we use their fears as handles to manipulate them and get them to do what we want

  

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• The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

  

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• I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gelded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own: their votes. And who benefits the most? The lawyers.

  

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• I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

  

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  • Black
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• I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

  

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• The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there... You have Kurds who were displaced by these Arabs that were moved up there by Saddam Hussein. Kurds have been displaced from Kirkuk for hundreds of years.

  

  Raymond T. Odierno
  • Victim
  • Hussein
  • Kurds