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- Nov 07, 2020
Anon Quotes
Personal ties to a complicated homeland.
This anon quotes collection features reflections on Lebanon's layered culture and complicated history, often from people with deep personal ties to the country. Several lines speak to the bittersweet pull of a place shaped by outside influence and internal strain. See Country quotes for more national and cultural reflections.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's complicated for my music to be accepted, even in Lebanon and the Arabic world - I sing in Arabic, but there's no lute, no classical instruments. Maybe with the Internet opening things up, things will change.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.
- Nov 07, 2020
The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father came to the U.S. from Lebanon in 1920 when he was 8 without knowing a word of English. He traveled to Green Bay, Wis., married, bought a house, and he and my mom, Helen, raised 10 kids. Everything depended on his one-man business driving a truck.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father made 'Jean de Florette' and 'Manon des Sources' back to back, everybody said, 'Why two movies?' But you need two movies to show how criminality evolves, and to tell the story: You can't show a man in love with so many women in one big biopic.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one candidate, and even Saudi Arabia, whose rulers are perhaps more terrified of women than rulers anywhere else in the world, allowed limited municipal elections.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.
- Oil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with our region is that there are areas with oil and too much money, and then there are places such as south Lebanon and the Palestinian territories where there is no work, and instead of developing industry, they become dependent on oil money - this results in extremism.
- Lebanon
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lebanon first.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things have to be straightened out to keep Lebanon away from regional conflicts.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lebanon cannot resolve a question like Hezbollah which is in Syria, Iraq, everywhere because of Iran. It is a regional political solution that needs to be done.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lebanon is a small country, and we have a saying: as long as you know your size, you know, just try to protect what you have.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job and my task as prime minister of Lebanon is to shield Lebanon from any instability like in Syria or Iraq or any other country that surrounds us. My task is to make sure that we have a country that is stable.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020