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I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#expression #freedom #i #penalized #place

The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#contrary #iraqi #kurdish #no-fly #people

This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#citizens #discrimination #ethnic #iraq #iraqi

So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#brands #common #companies #fields #four

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out. ↗

— David Talbot

#american #become #celebrities #journalism #magazines

Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products. ↗

— David Talbot

#kind #living #living room #magazines #most

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism. ↗

— David Talbot

#closest thing #cruz #i #journalism #me

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#hard #lest #soft #squeezed #too

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. ↗

— Amy Tan

#chilly #conjure #could #feelings #had

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life. ↗

— Amy Tan

#also #completely #did #fiction #first