#sit

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#going #just #much #oppression #sit

Yes, I don't believe that the inter-Korean relationship has, quote, 'deteriorated' since I assumed office. Rather I believe that the relationship between the two Koreas is entering into a new phase - a time of transition. And so I think that the North Koreans are trying to see what they can build with this, with my new administration. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#assumed #believe #between #build #deteriorated

I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency. ↗

— Roh Moo-hyun

#conduct #i #presidency #reached #situation

It is really important for women to look up and see other women being successful. When I was in that position, all I wanted to do was blend in and be one of the guys. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#blend #guys #i #important #look

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#condemning #gambling #las #las vegas #organized

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#apologists #ask #centuries #culture #degrades

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#i #implementation #revolution #rules #struggling

It's been really nice to see different counties that I might never have visited before. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#before #counties #different #i #might

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#alone #little #narrative #novel #sit

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#attractive #begin #being #doing #got