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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Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.
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One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage.
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For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.
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If night raids and detentions are an unavoidable part of modern counterinsurgency warfare, then so is the resentment they breed.
