#les

Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#bleeding #clean #cut #fighting #front

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail. ↗

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

#enables #endears #fail #governments #main

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#i #music #press #read #tv

I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#first #got #i #into #music

So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#anymore #doing #going #got #out

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. ↗

— Kate O'Brien

#enough #everywhere #go #i #i think

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#become #doubt #importance #inclined #influence

Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back. ↗

— Richard O'Brien

#back #bath #cut #down #getting

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#children #christ #countless #countless millions #families

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. ↗

— Martin Kippenberger

#deal #i #i am #ideas #salesman