"The world starts to exist, for Americans, when……" — Isabel Allende
"The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks, and then it disappears into thin air."
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Isabel Allende
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212 Quotes by Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende has 212 quotes on this site.
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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a…
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to…
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If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who…
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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
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For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women…
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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No…
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books:…
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice,…
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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for…
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Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have…
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More Afghanistan Quotes
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You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers…
— Joe Arpaio
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Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in…
— Joe Biden
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I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is…
— Bill Bryson
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there…
— James Buchan
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
— Barbara Bush
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The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and…
— George W. Bush
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I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I…
— George W. Bush
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The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of…
— Steve Buyer
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I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not…
— David Cameron
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And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan.…
— Dick Cheney
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When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training…
— Hillary Clinton
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