![Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world - wrote reams of commentary [after 9/11]. Their articles were all about Islam saving Aristotle and the zero, which medieval Muslim scholars had done more than eight hundred years ago; about Islam being a religion of peace and tolerance, not the slightest bit violent. These were fairy tales, nothing to do with the real world I knew.](/assets/img/quote-photos/infuriatingly-stupid-analysts-especially-people-who-called-themselves-arabists-638960732978665942.jpg)
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zero children school
Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used. Chris Crutcher
zero quality cards
he economy favors throughput over quality and craftsmanship, and economists are terrified because the American savings rate has crept upward from about zero to almost five percent. But the mortgage crisis and the burgeoning credit card crisis are causing Americans to become wary of irresponsible debt. Denis Hayes
zero clinton honeymoon
Clinton had absolutely zero honeymoon, none whatsoever. Dee Dee Myers
zero littles matter
The quantum fluctuations within a zero-point field can start the process that builds the process, which builds into matter, an irreversible process. We have some evidence that suggests that. We don't have a Big Bang, but we have a lot of little pops! A continuous set of little pops! Edgar Mitchell
zero air cells
A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life. To begin with, the very word "risk" implies worry, and people who worry about every bite of food, sip of water, the air they breathe, the gym sessions they have missed, and the minutiae of vitamin doses are not sending positive signals to their cells. A stressful day sends constant negative messaging to the feedback loop and popping a vitamin pill or choosing whole wheat bread instead of white bread does close to zero to change that. Deepak Chopra
zero jobs reality
The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation. Dixie Lee Ray
zero
If we can find the offsets we'll go down to zero across-the- board, Pete Domenici
zero military effort
Well, we've got a major effort under way to try to educate everybody, to let them know we have a zero tolerance policy where sexual assault is involved. Dick Cheney
zero destiny humanity
It's Christmas at Ground Zero The button has been pressed The radio Just let us know That this is not a test Everywhere the atom bombs are droppin It's the end of all humanity No more time for last minute shoppin' It's time to face your final destiny. Charles Sumner
real way lessons
In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down. Alexandra Fuller
real taken men
It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless.
real book writing
There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any real way mid-process. The only way to survive is to write until it is all said and done.
realistic
Let us keep expectations at a realistic level. Erik Solheim
realize
One should not put of thing untill tomorrow, that one can realize today.
realistic release seriously spring thinking
No one is seriously thinking a spring release is realistic any more.
realized shows
When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage. Joel Madden
real thinking knowing
I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.
real teenager school
I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.
stupid zeppelins idiot
Led Zeppelin is just a bunch of stupid idiots who wrote cool riffs. Chris Cornell
stupid exercise artist
If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.
stupid people wicked
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid. Denis Diderot
stupid silly ignorance
Stupidity is a talent for misconception. Edgar Allan Poe
stupid axes trying
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. Edsger Dijkstra
stupidity greed world
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. Edward Abbey
stupid risk trying
Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid. Dominic Cooper
stupid dumb input
Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb. Dirk Benedict
stupid hero believe
Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something. David Bowie