"I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs……" — John Pomfret
"I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions."
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John Pomfret
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27 Quotes by John Pomfret
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I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in…
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But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are…
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When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.
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The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.
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And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.
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I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I…
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The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and…
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Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.
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In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.
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A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a…
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I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the…
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I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have…
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More Bosnian Quotes
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one of 10 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks…
— Emir Kusturica
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
— Paddy Ashdown
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I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge…
— Michael Ignatieff
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In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
— Aleksandar Hemon
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I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.
— Adnan
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Let that man be a Bosnian, Herzegovinian. Outside they don't call you by another name, except simply a Bosnian. Whether…
— Josip Broz Tito
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Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and…
— Janine di Giovanni
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A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a…
— John Pomfret
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For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army,…
— John Pomfret
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