Anand Gopal Quotes
If night raids and detentions are an unavoidable part of modern counterinsurgency warfare, then so is the resentment they breed.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to music in a passive way; that if you sit in a concert hall and expect to be moved or taken off your seat by the music, it will not happen.
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You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
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I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.
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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
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I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.
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I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.
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The only advice I can give you… is to examine who you are… Figure out what’s important to you. Know yourselves. Know what’s in your heart. Don’t be swayed by fear or history or the opinions of outsiders. Find your own truth. It will lead you to the things you love.
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If night raids and detentions are an unavoidable part of modern counterinsurgency warfare, then so is the resentment they breed.
