The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein’s army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak after losing the 1991 Gulf War. Iraqis rose up, but Saddam’s troops killed thousands – Iraqis say tens of thousands – in a counter-offensive. Richard Engel Read Quote
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. Chuck Palahniuk Read Quote
I don’t want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don’t want to be a decrepit old lady. Lulu Read Quote
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. Jean-Paul Sartre Read Quote
I’ve just finished reading ‘The Second Plane,’ and I think it’s some of the best non-fiction I’ve ever read. M. J. Hyland Read Quote
In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That’s reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like? Susan Cain Read Quote
I’m one of these guys who always feel like the outsider, you know? I’m always longing to be part of something, you know? John Rzeznik Read Quote
