quotes about Eritrea

last updated: November 28, 2023

I tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea.
-- John Gimlette

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It is clear that several countries, in the Balkans for example, need to be considered countries of safe origin. But others like, in my opinion, Eritrea, undoubtedly need to be considered a country of origin with a valid claim to asylum. And with a third group of states, like Nigeria for example, each individual case needs to be evaluated. Then there are also very controversial cases like Afghanistan. In any case, united European action is needed. This argument for Europeanization may sound utopian, but there is no alternative.
-- Paolo Gentiloni

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“Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much. Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful. And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless.”
“I am a Piscean, and they have a lovingly detached attitude towards life.”
“I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.”
“If you had to have a diploma or a GED to collect unemployment, you'd see a lot more kids staying in school.”
“I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No government functions without the grease of corruption.”

Source : Carlos Fuentes (2007). “The Eagle's Throne: A Novel”, p.37, Random House
“God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but from false service, the mere display of material wealth, He turns away.”
“[But if things continue the way they are] ...the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war.”

Source : "Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict". Book by Tony Kushner, Alisa Solomon, p. 16., 2003.
“"Just try and remember," I said slowly," that if God had intended men to fly He'd have given us wings. So all flying is flying in the face of nature. It's unnatural, wicked and stuffed with risks all the time. The secret to flying is learning to minimize the risks." "Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?"”

Source : Gavin Lyall (2013). “Shooting Script”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing
“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.”

Source : John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.77, Penguin