Bombs do very, very bad things to human bodies. It's incredibly shocking to see.
“Bombs do very, very bad things to human bodies. It's incredibly shocking to see.”
— Phil Klay · Bad Things
The World Motivation
Bombs do very, very bad things to human bodies. It's incredibly shocking to see.
“Bombs do very, very bad things to human bodies. It's incredibly shocking to see.”
— Phil Klay · Bad Things
Bombs do very, very bad things to human bodies. It's incredibly shocking to see.
War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.
I have, for a very long time, been a huge admirer of Marilynne Robinson, whose work I just love.
I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.
Bad things happen when problems are protected by a force field of tediousness.
I'm honest enough to say I don't know everything. You know, I don't. I don't understand all of God. I don't understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.
I've got friends whose parents work three jobs. They don't know where their next meal is going to come from. When you've got a bunch of people living in poverty like that, bad things happen.
Usually in France we prefer to say bad things about the Nouvelle Vague, but I'm always impressed with its freedom and the fact of not making a film to give your opinion but just as a piece of art, which to me means the Nouvelle Vague.
Marines and soldiers don't issue themselves orders; they don't send themselves overseas. United States citizens elect the leaders who send us overseas.
I don't want to be known for bad things in life, ever. I should be known for my work. People should love me for my work.