2011 Quote by Jeremy Scahill Download Open image ““The British version of 'Shit My Dad Says' is really entertaining.”” — Jeremy Scahill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare 2011 News-international-phone-hacking Parliament-of-the-united-kingdom Rupert murdoch Twitter
“my dad likes to say that you can shit in one hand and wish in the other and see which one gets full first” — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“In the first years of our lives we learn how to shit, talk, walk, sleep, eat and, most importantly, how to royally piss off… — A.G. Phillips Copy Share Image
“A man’s supposed to shit himself after he dies, son, not before. Try to remember that, lad, so that when your time comes, you… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“My dad loved the shit out of her and hardly ever knew what to say to her and she loved the shit out right… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“Dad was a writer down to his cells, and he loved metaphors. Everything was a metaphor. Your dirty laundry could be one. Unexpected encounters… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“One thing you'll learn when you're in the business of selling utter shite to the Great British Public is that there's really no bottom to where they'll go. Shit food, shit TV, shit bands, shit films, shit houses. There is absolutely no fucking bottom with this stuff. The shittier you can make it - a bad photocopy of a bad… — John Niven Copy Share
“Whenever I see a strange man at a urinal, I always approach him slowly and say, “Dad, is that you?” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“You’ll make a sucky father someday,” I tell him with a smile. “I feel sorry for the kid that doesn’t get to burst into… — Suzanne Young Copy Share Image
“When a hurricane damaged my father's house, my brother rushed over with a gas grill, three coolers of beer, and an enormous Fuck-It Bucket - a plastic pail filled with jawbreakers and bite-size candy bars. ("When shit brings you down, just say 'fuck it,' and eat yourself some motherfucking candy.")” — David Sedaris Copy Share
“ I ain’t shit! I ain’t shit! shouts your brain, and this place proves the point.” — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
“The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Because the whole British thing you have going on makes me want to do very wicked things to your mouth.” — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
“operations] that previously only Tier One Special Mission Units would be doing.” — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
I have chosen to cast my lot with independent media outlets because I believe that only through independent reporting where you are not beholding… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press. — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
The first week I was in Iraq, I said, "This is what I want to do. I want to be a reporter and to tell stories of people whose stories would not be told if we don't gather them." It's part of what I think of as the one-two punch of journalism. You're trying to give voice to the voiceless,… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share
Because I didn't see war in Iraq through the partisan lens that seems to dominate a lot of the perspective today with Fox News on the one side and MSNBC on the other, I didn't see it as Democrats good, Republicans bad. I saw it as a situation where the United States is a force that engages in these military… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share
“Remember that there was great controversy that George Bush asserted the power simply to detain American citizens without due process or simply to eavesdrop on their conversation without warrant. Here you have something much more severe. Not eavesdropping on American citizens, not detaining them without due process, but killing them without due process. And yet many Democrats and progressives, because… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share
Now, here we are, and we have Obama in office, and he has drawn down forces in Iraq - which is a plan that was on Bush's desk the day that he left office. The forces in Afghanistan, he's going to draw down, too. But at the same time, Obama has also expanded a lot of the more unsavory, covert… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share
I believe that we [Americans] are making more new enemies than we are killing terrorists at this point, and I think it's time that… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
You can do as much diligence as possible before you go somewhere to try to protect yourself and the people around you. — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
My fear, as an American, is that our own actions are going to contribute to an inspiration for terrorists to want to harm us… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
If you're a human being, you'd have to be terrified. The impunity ... That these guys can sit on a TV show and just… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
“The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results… — Charles Moore Copy Share Image
“It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to personalize or 'objectify' them in the figure of one individual. Yet ordinary discourse would be unfeasible without the use of portmanteau terms—like 'Stalinism,' say—just as the most scrupulous insistence on historical forces will often have to concede to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“I realise I'm behind on this but Rebekah Brooks was married to Ross Kemp of Gangs fame?! And she assaulted him? That explains so… — Mandy Wiener Copy Share Image
“For the purposes of science, information had to mean something special. Three centuries earlier, the new discipline of physics could not proceed until Isaac Newton appropriated words that were ancient and vague—force, mass, motion, and even time—and gave them new meanings. Newton made these terms into quantities, suitable for use in mathematical formulas. Until then, motion (for example) had been… — James Gleick Copy Share
“Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.” — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas. Wait—Texas? Wasn't Texas supposed to be thriving even as the rest of America suffered? Didn't its governor declare, during his re-election campaign, that 'we have billions in surplus'? Yes, it was, and yes, he did. But reality has… — Paul Krugman Copy Share
“The Aussies have spent so much time basking in the glory of the last generation that they have forgotten to plan for this one. It's just like the West Indies again; once their great names from the 1970s and 80s retired, the whole thing fell apart. The way things are going, the next Ashes series cannot come too quickly for… — Geoffrey Boycott Copy Share
“Imagining the end of things, when you are a child, is perhaps impossible. The thin child, despite the war that was raging, was more afraid of eternal boredom, of doing nothing that mattered, of day after day going nowhere, than she was of death or the end of things. When she thought of death she thought of the little boy… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share
“The great cause of the new Republican intake is the reduction of the deficit but to anyone seeking evidence of sincere attempts at deficit-reduction the evidence is baffling. The Republicans showed before Christmas that they would seek to reduce the deficit but not when it came to a matter of the tax breaks that had aggravated the deficit in the… — James Fenton Copy Share
“The science is clear: if psi exists, the most reliable way to see it is through the lens of statistics. As a result, believers… — Steve Volk Copy Share Image
“Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn't be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points.” — Andy Zaltzman Copy Share Image