Bosnia Quotes

I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.

Emir Kusturica

Country, Independent, Yugoslavia

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Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.

Alija Izetbegovic

Country, Strong, Two

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We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia.

Alija Izetbegovic

Integrity, Fighting

Speech in Zetra, Sarajevo, October 2, 2002.

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Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.

Allyson Schwartz

Years, Long, World

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Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia

Edward James Olmos

Important, Inability, Situation

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Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist.

Jill Dando

Mean, Hair, Blonde

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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.

Paddy Ashdown

Jobs, Doors, Europe

"Farewell, Sarajevo" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.

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In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

Christiane Amanpour

Children, Gun, Thinking

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Truth and reconciliation' are always combined, but I would split them: I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

Paddy Ashdown

Thinking, Ready, Reconciliation

"Farewell, Sarajevo" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 01, 2005.

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Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

Joe Bob Briggs

War, Fighting, Air

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I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.

John Keegan

Thinking, Political, Wells

"A History of Warfare". Book by John Keegan, November, 1991.

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The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.

Alija Izetbegovic

People, Community, Pushing

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Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

Paddy Ashdown

Anger, Years, House

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It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.

Jello Biafra

Mean, Hands, Should Have

"Nardwuar Vs. Jello Biafra: New Introduction by Kristen K.: Originally ran in Razorcake #08, 2002 By Nardwuar". Interview with Nardwuar, razorcake.org. 2002.

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As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.

Alija Izetbegovic

Agreement, Limited Time, Sovereignty

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The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect.

David Petraeus

Art, Iraq, Weakness

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I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself.

Michael Fassbender

Dad, Phones, Europe

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It's not Beirut or Bosnia.

Carl Froch

Motivation, Fighter, Beirut

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For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house it was to salvage photos.

Aleksandar Hemon

Running, People, House

"Aleksandar Hemon: A personal history of Sarajevo". Interview with John Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2013.

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I would sacrifice peace for a sovereign Bosnia-Herzegovina ... but for that peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina I would not sacrifice sovereignty.

Alija Izetbegovic

Sacrifice, Sovereign, Sovereignty

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If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.

Coolio

Military, Vacation, Ifs

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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During the war, a battle was fought here, not only for the creation of a new Yugoslavia, but also a battle for Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sovereign republic. To some generals and leaders their position on this was not quite clear. I never once doubted my stance on Bosnia. I always said that Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot belong to this or that, only to the people that lived there since the beginning of time.

Josip Broz Tito

War, Yugoslavia, People

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...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she was a grade school class president, the young friend you gossiped with, a date or double date, someone to share a tent with in Darfur, a fellow election monitor in Bosnia, a mentor, a teacher you'd laughed within a classroom or a faculty lounge, or the board member you'd groaned with after a contentious meeting

Will Schwalbe

Teacher, Cancer, Eye

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I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

Miep Gies

Thinking, Holocaust, Rwanda

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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

Fatos Nano

Hopeful, Forget, Happened

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