War Zones Quotes

• Its a war zone. Terrible things happen.

  Eason Jordan

  War, Terrible, Happens

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• War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

  Kate Adie

  War, Risk, Natural

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• It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  War, Body, Deals

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• Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

  Ariel Gore

  War, Divorce, Conventional Wisdom

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• When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming number of widows and orphans and people who had been physically and emotionally damaged; every 10-year-old kid on the street knew how to dismantle a Kalashnikov in under a minute. I would flip through math textbooks intended for third grade, fourth grade, and they would include word problems such as, "If you have 100 grenades and 20 mujahideen, how many grenades per mujahideen do you get?" War has infiltrated every facet of life.

  Khaled Hosseini

  War, Kids, Math

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2009.

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• I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

  Christiane Amanpour

  War, Past, Years

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• It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Fun, Pain, War

  "Gavin's Woodpile". www.brucecockburn.org. December 15, 2012.

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• I understood why war zones are called 'theaters' because they frame a kind of play acting or, worse, deceit, that can stain a human life forever: the deceit of hate on hearsay - hating an enemy one doesn't know.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Hate, War, Play

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• When we talk about total war, and we talk about war zones, and we talk about the breakdown of the cities, when you exclude questions of race from that discourse, something disappears that's really central to the forms of repression that we're talking about.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Race, Talking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

  Kate Adie

  Jobs, War, Happened

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• Lots will get on the mic and tell huge audiences to pray for world peace. And there's a scientific study that shows when everyone prays for peace, whole war zones on the planet actually cease fighting for that day!

  DJ QBert

  War, Fighting, World

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• All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. Its a hard job, but real life is harder. Truth be told, playgrounds can be war zones.

  Atticus Shaffer

  Jobs, Real, War

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• I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened.

  Alicia Witt

  New York, War, Thinking

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

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• I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

  Manute Bol

  War, Gone, Shots

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• Everyone said, ‘Brace yourself, Lupita! Keep a granola bar in that clutch of yours!’ I didn’t really understand what they meant, and it was only once it was past that I realized that my body had been holding on by a thread to get through this very intense experience. Nothing can prepare you for awards season. The red carpet feels like a war zone, except you cannot fly or fight; you just have to stand there and take it.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  War, Fighting, Past

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• The war between the Iranians and Iraqis is a touchy issue. To be quite honest, they each other's guts. It was not responsible to let one of our ships be put into a war zone like that.

  Sam Nunn

  War, Issues, Ships

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• It is not possible to starve an organised terrorist group because it is number one a state, so it levies taxation inside the territory that is controlled by Islamic State. But also the activity, for example the smuggling of oil, is taking place in an area which is a war zone. So of course people will buy that oil because they don't have any alternative. So even if we wanted to stop that kind of trade, it will be very, very difficult to do that.

  Loretta Napoleoni

  War, Islamic, Oil

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• If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.

  Robert Pattinson

  Running, War, People

  "Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart's Wild Rid". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 4, 2009.

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• It's quite a traumatic thing for a lot of our veterans that come back... You're in a war zone, you're dodging IED's and bullets one day and a couple days later you're back in society again with a bunch of people that have no idea of what you've been through.

  Charlie Daniels

  Couple, War, Ideas

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• The battle for our lives, and the lives and souls of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, our neighbors, and our nation is waged on our knees. When we don't pray, it's like sitting on the sidelines watching those we love and care about scrambling through a war zone, getting shot at from every angle. When we do pray, however, we're in the battle alongside them, approaching God's power on their behalf. If we also declare the Wordog God in our prayers, then we wield a powerful weapon against which no enemy can prevail.

  Stormie Omartian

  Children, Powerful, Husband

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• Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.

  Ron Fournier

  War, Home, Kids

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• The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.

  Julian Casablancas

  War, Manhattan, Elements

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• Police do not belong in war zones.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  War, Police, Zone

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• I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  War, People, Baltimore

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• Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, War, Ideas

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.249, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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