Ground Zero Quotes - Page 2

• Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.

  Talib Kweli

  Zero, Essence, People

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• The most surprising thing to me is what an incredibly intense effort it's been to create a world from the ground up. I had run a show that had already existed and had been created by the show-runner, Meredith [Stiehm]. It's a very different experience to come in at ground zero and meet people and assemble the cast and crew. As a group and as a family, we're creating this world.

  Veena Sud

  Running, Zero, Creating

  Source: collider.com

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• The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.

  John Podhoretz

  Zero, Real, Mosques

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• How about that McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the 19 hijackers.

  Michael Moore

  Zero, Block, Mcdonalds

  "Michael Moore: Ground Zero McDonald's Killed More People Than 9/11 Hijackers" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. September 18, 2010.

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• The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.

  Peter King

  Zero, Practice, People

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• There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

  Kevin Smith

  Zero, People, Expectations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration is good for the country. But the symbolism of it at ground zero, within two blocks or three blocks, I believe is wrong.

  Peter King

  Spiritual, Country, Zero

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• We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Religious, Zero, Islamic

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