Hyder Akbar quotes

“To understand Afghanistan, you have to face the stress the average Afghan deals with.”
-- Hyder Akbar

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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“The yearning to be Afghan, to be part of the country, part of the land helped me separate myself from the casual traveler and claim my Afghan identity.”
-- Hyder Akbar

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“After I was in an ambush, my uncles were happy - it was almost like a baptism.”
-- Hyder Akbar

Source : "A Tale of Two Countries". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. December 2005.

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“In a male-dominated environment, things are very macho, and you can't show weakness.”
-- Hyder Akbar

Source : "A Tale of Two Countries". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. December 2005.

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“It would be very hard to bring a wife to Afghanistan. In America, I'd have no problem with her doing whatever she wanted, but in Afghanistan, that's not the case.”
-- Hyder Akbar

Source : "A Tale of Two Countries". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. December 2005.

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“However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

“No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.”

“Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.”

“What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.”

“The average man. The emergence of the concept.”

“Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself.”

“That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.”

“It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.”

“I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.108, Granta Books

“People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that,”