Quotes tagged ‘afghanistan’

(4 total)

“One of the Afghans I got to know best—his job was to clean this building that I worked in some of the time. And I was attempting to learn the language of Dari. He would teach me these Afghan sayings—there’s an amazing, rich tradition of proverbs in Afghanistan. One of them that I always think of is…”

— Pete Buttigieg, newyorker.com

“Legasov: [showing pictures of the damaged reactor] The atom is a humbling thing. General Nikolai Tarakanov: It's not humbling, it's humiliating. Why is the core still exposed to the air? Why have we not already covered it up? Legasov: We want to, but we can't get close enough. The debris on the roof…”

— Craig Mazin, Valery Legasov, Jared Harris, imdb.com

“[after escaping out of a small jail cell] Kara Milovy: You were fantastic. We're free. James Bond: Kara, we're inside a Russian airbase in the middle of Afghanistan.”

— Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson, James Bond, Timothy Dalton, imdb.com

“lived my entire life waiting for this moment. I trained, I lied, I killed just to get here. I killed in America, Afghanistan, Iraq... I took life from my own brothers and sisters right here on this continent! And all this death just so I could kill you.”

— Joe Robert Cole, Ryan Coogler, Erik Killmonger, Michael B Jordan, imdb.com