Violent Quotes - Page 26

• I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

  Daniel Craig

  Share, Violent Movies

  "Recap: ‘Saturday Night Live’ – Daniel Craig and Muse" by Ryan Mcgee, uproxx.com. October 07, 2012.

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• Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.

  Deepak Chopra

  Vanity, Doors, Unhappy

  Deepak Chopra (1996). “The Return of Merlin”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• I reeled my head back, and with violent, uncontrollable contortions, I launched a spray of yellow, soupy duckfoot vomit into the air ... I (didn't see) where my regurgitated lunch had ended up after it'd been blasted from my throat. I booked it out of the now-befouled Chang'an Theater as fast as possible. (My guide) found me fifteen minutes later trying to look as casual as it is possible for a six-foot-two curly-haired white guy to look in a Beijing theater.

  Steve Hely

  Two, Lunch, Yellow

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• An aggravating feature of this post-9/11 atmosphere is to cast suspicions on Muslims and on Islam as a religion that is interpreted as either inherently violent or death-oriented, with a particular animus against America and Americans.

  Richard A. Falk

  America, Atmosphere, Islam

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is no effort to acknowledge some equivalent accountability by associating "terrorism" with all violence that is deliberately aimed at civilians, either directly or as foreseeable effects of violent acts, whether the actor is a non-state individual or group or the state.

  Richard A. Falk

  Violent Acts, Effort, Accountability

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We've had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants. The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don't think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.

  Adam Gopnik

  Thinking, Mass Shootings, Isis

  "Charlie Hebdo, The Licensed Anarchist Clowns Of French Society". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. January 2, 2016.

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• America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn't like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence of violence separates our two countries.

  Joseph Boyden

  Country, Past, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so dramatic, and it was so violent.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Lynching, America, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Each of these failures for me is a failure of communication, via a mode of communication that can be violent or meant to behave violently. Butler provides a way of thinking about how language becomes an instrument of violence. And why we feel it as such.

  Claudia Rankine

  Communication, Thinking, Violence

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.

  Claudia Rankine

  Hurt, Thinking, Desire

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Only the violent acts of men "count" toward something besides evil in a patriarchy. It is the male story of violence that is sanctioned both socially and aesthetically. The male hero and acts of heroism require violence. Everyone is okey dokey with that. We are only beginning to see that constricting set of truths open up a little.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Hero, Men, Violent Acts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Men, Blood, Hearing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Baby, Character, Fighting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate manifestation of hip-hop, sold as a commodity and package with sensational race, sex and violent imagery, and the hip-hop culture that kids are living everyday at a local level, which often doesn't dabble in that terrain.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Sex, Kids, Race

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• I present the thing we're going to do as a simple starting point. They all know it's an art piece and that it's all going to be recorded. And I have never had an experience where one of these men tried to take advantage of the situation. If they were guilty of anything it was of being lonely. It was never that they were violent or dangerous.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Lonely, Art, Simple

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion.

  Eliza Griswold

  Islam, Important, Faces

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen.

  Eliza Griswold

  Friday, Running, Prayer

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In art class at school we learned how to draw tanks and soldiers opening fire at [Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khomeini and his beard. They didn't teach us the names of the flowers that grew around us in the city - wild flowers of all kinds and all colors. The math teacher used to whip the kids with his trouser belt. My father was constantly violent toward my mother for the most trivial reasons.

  Hassan Blasim

  Mother, Teacher, Art

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Country, Character, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm interested in the cultural thing - music, then eventually cinema. I think it's part of my struggle as a cultural worker. I'm not into the armed thing. I cannot be violent.

  Lav Diaz

  Struggle, Thinking, Cinema

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Look at the violence in Pakistan and the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan: the more troops we put in the more violent Pakistan becomes.

  Michael Hastings

  Troops, Looks, Pakistan

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not a pacifist, but I'm not a violent person. I mean, I have a gun. I shoot guns, but I wouldn't say I love guns. It doesn't work that way for me.

  David Rasche

  Mean, Gun, Way

  "Sledge Hammer! star David Rasche on the fun of puncturing American gun culture". Interview with John Teti, tv.avclub.com. January 16, 2016.

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• It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first started writing these stories, I was working for an Arab - Israeli human rights group. It was during the Second Intifada. It was this totally violent and intense time, and I think there's a part of me where I don't know how to write about that situation without getting my politics out of my messages, and that's something that was important for me not to do in this book.

  Molly Antopol

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My father was raised by a violent alcoholic. There was alcoholism in my mother's family. I'm half-adopted, and my birth father was a drug addict and alcoholic. So, I think they very consciously made decisions and parented me in a way that was aimed to help save me from that. So, I knew it would be particularly painful and it was, especially for my father.

  Melissa Febos

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to challenge it in civil society as well as we would challenge Christian-based theocracy, or any other form of bigotry.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Christian, Challenges, Form

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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