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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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• In Southern West Virginia we live in a war zone. Three and one-half million pounds of explosives are being used every day to blow up the mountains. Blasting our communities, blasting our homes, poisoning us, trying to intimidate us. I don't mind being poor. I mind being blasted and poisoned. There ARE no jobs on a dead planet.

  Judy Bonds

  Jobs, War, Home

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• In Burton's day they [soldiers] were itching to get into the fray. Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now! The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

  Rupert Everett

  War, Army, Thinking

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• Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.

  Tom DeLonge

  War, Finding Love, Playing Music

  "Tom DeLonge Breaking Silence On Blink With Autobiographical LP, Movie". Interview with James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. October 3, 2005.

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• It's become a cliche to think of marriage as a disaster area and a war zone. Although political shows are really popular now, I think what sets this apart is this marriage and this family dynamic, and this way of revealing that people in positions of power or who have public careers are also real people. They have children and lives, and they have to deal with all of the things that everybody else does.

  Tim Daly

  Children, Real, War

  Source: collider.com

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• You look at any war zone and you talk to any soldiers and they have to blank out - in order for that to work for them, in order for them to survive they have to blank out something in themselves in order to do it.

  David Morrissey

  War, Order, Soldier

  Source: collider.com

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• Military technologies such as Drones, SWAT vehicles and machine-gun-equipped armored trucks once used exclusively in high-intensity war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan are now being supplied to police departments across the nation and not surprisingly the increase in such weapons is matched by training local police in war zone tactics and strategies.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, War, Gun

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Let's go back to the beginning of the Obama administration, when Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama led NATO in toppling the government in Libya. They did it because they wanted to promote democracy. A number of Republicans supported them. Well, the result is, Libya is now a terrorist war zone run by jihadists.

  Ted Cruz

  Running, War, Government

  5th Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• I can't just go up to people standing in the snow at the German-Austrian border and ask them: "Are you an Islamist?" When people flee to us from war zones, we first have to help. But we also have to be quick to look very closely at who it is that is coming.

  Alice Schwarzer

  War, People, Snow

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was charging forward too hard, into too many war zones, working too long, drinking too heavily, pushing forward, pushing forward. And who knows, had this not happened, maybe I would have been one of the casualties as a journalist covering the war. Who knows, maybe I would have been captured and tortured somewhere along the line, because I always pushed things to the limit.

  Brad Willis

  War, Drinking, Long

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The life changing moment for me what the first time I went to a war zone and that was Sierra Leone. I took two weeks, eleven years ago and I went. I wasn't an Ambassador or anything I just asked to go and I was allowed to go. It was like someone smacked me in the face.

  Angelina Jolie

  War, Life Changing, Years

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• I received a wonderful email after I spoke at a school from a girl who'd lived in a war zone and endured horrors no human being should suffer, let alone a child. This young lady was fortunate to be bought to Britain and seemed to adjust well, but suddenly found herself falling off the rails and sliding into hell when I chatted to her. In her letter, she told me the difference that I'd made. She's now 20 years old and a fashion designer employing staff and she puts her work ethic down purely to talking to me. It's my most treasured letter.

  Simon Weston

  Girl, Fashion, Children

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military and soldiers has risen.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, War, Soldier

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

  Jessica Savitch

  War, Racing, Robbery

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be shocked when Halliburton overcharges for everything from towels to gas, when Parsons' sub, sub, sub-contractor builds a police academy where the pipes drip raw sewage on the heads of army cadets and where Blackwater investigates itself and finds it acted honorably. That's just corporations doing what they do and Iraq is a privatized war zone so that's what you get. Build a frontier, you get cowboys and robber barons.

  Naomi Klein

  War, Army, Cowboy

  "The Real Blackwater Scandal: Build a Frontier, You Get Cowboys". Interview with John Cusack, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2010.

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• More recently the US has more accurately been viewed as a militarist 'empire' that fights destructive wars and intervenes in a variety of societies, especially in the Middle East to retain control over oil reserves, and lends crucial support to Israel that not only oppresses the Palestinian people but threatens to convert the entire region into a war zone.

  Richard A. Falk

  War, Fighting, Oil

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.

  George W. Norris

  War, Government, President

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• I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements.

  Questlove

  War, Class, Philadelphia

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions from North Korea to Haiti and Beirut to Sri Lanka, and the question came up: What does this man have to offer to this world which seems so torn up and so attached to conflict?

  Pico Iyer

  War, Men, Sri Lanka

  "Reflects On Thirty Years Traveling with Tibet’s Exiled Leader". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.

  Camille Paglia

  Sports, Football, War

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.56, Vintage

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• People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

  Kate Adie

  War, Team, People

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• Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The resulting soot might well stretch over all of South Asia... It could be carried around the world... [and] the consequences could be dire. Beneath such a pall sunlight would be dimmed, temperatures lowered and droughts more frequent. Spring and summer frosts may be expected... This endangerment of the food supplies... appears to be likely enough that it should affect the war plans.

  Carl Sagan

  Summer, Spring, War

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• I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.

  Gloria Allred

  War, Rights, Years

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• This is what it means to be in the middle of love, I thought. Being in the middle of love is like being in the middle of a war zone.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  War, Mean, Love Is

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.333, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during all that enforced loneliness was my access to a good library in which I read, literally, every book on the shelves, even textbooks, and which gave me access to other worlds no way open to me.

  Don Pendleton

  Lonely, War, Loneliness

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