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• Audiences will see what they want to see. Some will come out, hopefully enjoying two hours of action. Some people will find themselves gravitating towards the emotional dilemma that the characters find themselves in. Other people will see that there is some layer of subversions to the storytelling aspect of poking a finger of judgment at certain governments to the idea of foreign invasion, others maybe false pretenses.

  Colin Farrell

  Character, Emotional, Government

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion.

  Bill Johnson

  Trying, Expect Nothing, Should

  Bill Johnson (2010). “When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Like students going to school, the planes on their bombing missions fly over Beijing each morning. And each time I hear their engines attack the air I feel a certain slight tension, as if I were witnessing the invasion of Death, though this heightens my consciousness of the existence of Life.

  Lu Xun

  Morning, School, Air

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• It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter.

  Frank Murphy

  Matter, Privacy, Employers

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• Australians and New Zealanders don't talk about Gallipoli in terms of invasion. I started talking about it and using that word and at first there were a few people who were getting upset in the same way that in any country, if you work for a newspaper you know exactly the dude you can go and talk to get a knee-jerk reaction when it comes to something to do with the military.

  Russell Crowe

  Country, Military, Talking

  "The Water Diviner - Russell Crowe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Being a father is like directing Alien or Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's much more difficult than directing an episode of TV. Also, directing a show or movie lasts a few months at most, parenting lasts for decades.

  Misha Collins

  Father, Body, Lasts

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com.

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• I've done a few interviews where I realized that 9/11 was the ultimate home invasion, not to be glib about it. You know, where the place that you think is safe and the people that you think are safe and far from evil are suddenly just slaughtered by it, and you have no control over it.

  Wes Craven

  Home, Thinking, People

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• We can't know in advance what history is going to say, but I would be utterly amazed and surprised if this entire adventure, this entire Iraqi invasion from the beginning of its inception, were not judged to be an utter failure and a terrible, terrible thing for the world.

  Robert Reich

  Iraq, Would Be, World

  Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. August 22, 2007.

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• Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was all smiles, well smirks, after picking up the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore at a rally in Harlem ... Gore went on to praise Dean for taking a tough anti-war stance before the invasion of Iraq and he praised Dean supporters in hopes that will ease his concerns over lack of foreign policy experience, and his lack of support among blacks and Latinos, and his hot temperament, and perceived arrogance, and policy flip-flops, and campaign glitches. Well, there's a lot going on here.

  Jon Stewart

  War, Iraq, Support

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• Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.

  Frederic Bastiat

  War, Giving, Hatred

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• Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers-settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing-to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence.

  Bill Ayers

  Father, War, Destiny

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• Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Internals, Dies, Nations

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• We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, Troops, Want

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• Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Spiritual, Pain, Hardship

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• Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Military, War, Names

  "Eduardo Galeano, Chronicler of Latin America’s “Open Veins,” on His New Book 'Children of the Days'". Interview With Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 8, 2013.

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• For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.

  Paulo Freire

  Essentials, Inferiority, Succeed

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.110, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Would Be, Barbarians, Superfluous

  Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”

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• A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression.

  James Madison

  Strength, Peace, Ambition

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• Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Integrity, Anger, Boundaries

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• One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Army, Ideas

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The History of a Crime”

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• Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.

  Steven Spielberg

  Military, War, Air

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• Faria Alam whined about the invasion of her privacy in yet another lucrative interview earlier this week. There is very good money to be made out of whining about the invasion of your privacy.

  Rod Liddle

  Soccer, Football, Interviews

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• The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Brave, He Man

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• I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.

  William Hague

  Party, Believe, Thinking

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• I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.

  William Hague

  Iraq, Decision, Agree

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