Fragile Quotes - Page 9

• US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and I have repeatedly sought to emphasize that the progress in Iraq is fragile and also, possibly, reversible.

  David Petraeus

  Iraq, Progress, Ambassadors

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Apart from those other riders there is a whole production team [ of The Fourth Phase] behind the cameras too, hauling hundreds of kilos of fragile and awkward filming equipment up those same frozen landscapes. They're the real heroes.

  Travis Rice

  Team, Real, Hero

  Source: www.snowmagazine.com

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• In France now, there's no problem with official censorship. Once your movie is finished, you always are R-rated. My movie is just R-rated in France. But when you meet French producers with a script like mine, they behave like the most fragile chickens in the world. They just tell you "Oh, no. You should cut this. You should cut that." And at the end you have been totally censored on the synopsis, and then on the script.

  Gaspar Noe

  Cutting, World, Scripts

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• My family endured a big crisis after my father's business went bankrupt and we went from having a comfortable life to having virtually nothing. I saw from that moment how fragile and precarious life can be and you have to work very hard not just to survive but also to accomplish something in life and fulfill your dreams.

  Shakira

  Dream, Father, Saws

  Source: www.viva-press.com

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• In cyberspace, we get many fewer cues about the emotional states and attitudes of the people we're talking to. That makes it less interesting, easier to mis-communicate, and more likely to destroy trust. So you need to treat cyberspace with care, especially being aware of the fragile nature of trust in the virtual world.

  Nick Morgan

  Attitude, Emotional, Talking

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.

  George Osborne

  Party, Recovery, People

  Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com

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• [Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Iraq, Way

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Initially when our foundations are rocked, when we lose our external security, we feel very fragile. In that moment, we have a choice. Am I the Phoenix and rise from the ashes or do I just keep wallowing in the ashes?

  Isha Judd

  Phoenix, Choices, Foundation

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• However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul of the artist and the need to self-medicate, which can lead to bad trouble either in drugs, or alcohol. So it's not that there's no connection, it's just that we can't make too much of it because it isn't the addiction that's the issue, it's the fragility of some people who do artistic work, who end up in rehab somewhere or other.

  Anne Roiphe

  Artist, Self, Issues

  "Anne Roiphe’s Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory". Interview with Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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• How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.

  Jean Cocteau

  Old Friends, Photograph, Leonardo

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• We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is - on the brink of catastrophe - torn by polarizing hate, and how it's a shame that we can't work together to get things done, but the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day!

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Hate, Working Together

  Keynote Address at the Rally to Restore Sanity, delivered 30 October 2010, Washington Mall

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• In a normal democracy, you protect the individual from the excessive power of the state. In Turkey, power elites try to protect the state - as if this state were fragile and needed protection - when in fact, it's too powerful already.

  Elif Safak

  Powerful, Turkeys, Democracy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

  Ray Bradbury

  Moon, Should Have, Space

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection.

  Sandra Oh

  Strong, Rejection, Actors

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• Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden.

  Francoise Giroud

  Desire

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• Saudi Arabia is the most fragile of all Arab states, though we're not saying so. And, unfortunately, bin Laden puts his finger on the other longstanding injustices in the Arab world: the continued occupation of Palestinian land by the Israelis; the enormous, constant Arab anger with the tens of thousands of Iraqi children who are dying under sanctions; the feelings of humiliation of millions of Arabs living under petty dictators, almost all of whom are propped up by the West.

  Robert Fisk

  Children, Land, Feelings

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 1, 2001.

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• It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Korea, Feminism, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Anything that we're connecting with that's happening right now, there's an obvious vulnerability - because we're just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression.

  Jason Mraz

  Expression, Middle, Obvious

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• The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Too Much, Care, Want

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.20, Random House

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• After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?

  Alice Walker

  Country, Children, Intelligent

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• You see the Earth as a bright blue and white Christmas tree ornament in the black sky. It's so small and so fragile - you realize that on that small spot is everything that means everything to you; all of history and art and death and birth and love.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Art, Mean, Blue

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• My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call "belief") play a poor, secondary role in human decisions; it is the payoff from the True and the False that dominates-and it is almost always asymmetric, with one consequence much bigger than the other, i.e., harboring positive and negative asymmetries (fragile or antifragile). Let me explain.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Taken, Play, Decision

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.259, Random House

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• What unnerves so many liberals about talk radio? Simple: It's the unapologetic nature of the conversation, the unwavering sense of certainty. Where's the nuance? The shades of gray? We all know truth is a fragile butterfly dancing in and out of shadow and light, and these guys act as though truth is a rhino charging across a sunlit veldt.

  James Lileks

  Butterfly, Simple, Rhinos

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• All I want to say is that life is very fragile. We should live every moment and cherish what we have been given.

  Li Bingbing

  Want, Life Is, Cherish

  "Interview with Li Bingbing on Elephants and Ivory Poaching". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If [Pope's Francis] media-generated popularity, fragile as that may turn out to be when the world discovers that the pope is really a Catholic, opens windows of possibility for explaining that divine mercy leads us to the truths God revealed to us (and inscribed into the world and into us), then his reanimation of the papacy will advance the "Church in permanent mission" for which he called in Evangelii Gaudium, which is the grand strategy document of his pontificate.

  George Weigel

  Media, Catholic, Church

  Source: eppc.org

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