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Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness. -- Elyn Saks
Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population. -- Noam Chomsky
The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you dont start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie. -- Colleen Haskell
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. -- Gertrude Stein
Our strategy is to defend ourselves against an occupying army and against settlers and settlements. -- Ahmed Yassin
I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing. -- Sarah Palin
I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult. -- Alison Moyet
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. -- Ambrose Bierce
I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991. -- Jon Lee Anderson
I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time. -- Nina Blackwood
Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite? -- Zadie Smith
I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape. -- Dylan Moran
As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist. -- Jan Hus
Our country was founded on immigration. We are all occupying Native American land here. At what point do we say 'It's our land, and nobody else can come here.' -- Michael Franti
The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy. -- James F. Byrnes
All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already sliding towards the dark possibilities in human nature. -- Michael Leunig
Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street. -- Michael Moore
We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous. -- David Suzuki
Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House. -- Tony Campolo
We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry. -- Sarah Vowell
I ask every man and woman occupying a place of responsibility whose duty it is to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ to live it and keep the commandments of God, so that their example will teach it. -- Heber J. Grant
In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory. -- Hassan Nasrallah
I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside. -- Alberto Fujimori
I don't think you're going to be seeing the U.S. employing large army divisions to deal with small terrorist groups again. I don't think they're going to be occupying foreign nations in order to dry up terrorist groups within them. I think that lesson has been learned. -- Richard Engel
Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as good as the everyday lineup. Singy - Ken Singleton - Flanny, and Cakes - the underwear spokesman Jim Palmer - were my go-to guys, occupying stalls along one wall of the shabby chic clubhouse. -- Jane Leavy
From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support. -- Noam Chomsky
The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies. -- Aristotle
... governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting ... -- Gertrude Stein
No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years. -- Richard Perle
Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female' -- Diana Vreeland
You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq. -- Barack Obama
There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility. -- King Felipe VI
Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others. -- Janet Frame
The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. -- Robert A. Heinlein
As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true. -- Paul Bremer
Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you. -- Michael Ondaatje
That's what time was like, along with the things occupying it, that it made the feelings connected to any memory seem worthless. -- Semezdin Mehmedinovi?
I think I know now why we are occupying Iraq. In case we have to sell America and move to a smaller country. -- Bill Maher
Stop invading Muslims lands! How can you expect Muslims to love you when you are forcefully occupying their lands and murdering their people? -- George Galloway
I don't think there's going to be peace as long as Israel is occupying land that belongs to the Palestinians, to Lebanon and to Syria. -- Jimmy Carter
I may not like everyone but love all. No one is worthy of occupying my heart. You scored a point, so what? Congratulations. You're forgiven! -- Assegid Habtewold
The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying. -- Adam Fletcher
Should the enemy forestall you in occupying a pass, do not go after him if the pass is fully garrisoned, but only if it is weakly garrisoned. -- Sun Tzu
We consider these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention, that occupied territory should not be changed by establishment of permanent settlements by the occupying power. -- Jimmy Carter
We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how difficult the task may be. -- Aslan Maskhadov
As a writer, I can live somewhat independently, occupying nooks and crannies and finding meaning there. I can even live in my mind a good portion of most days. -- Bonnie Jo Campbell
A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other. -- Honore de Balzac
Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher. -- Franz Karl Achard
Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer. -- Benjamin Percy
Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter! -- Israelmore Ayivor
An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth. -- Juan Cole
We've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there's an occupying force as opposed to a force that's part of the community that's protecting them and serving them. -- Barack Obama
A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building. -- Chanakya
If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless. -- Aristotle
Israel has WMD, and it has to sign [chemical warfare agreement], and Israel is occupying our land, so that's we talked about the Middle East, not Syria, not Israel ; it should be comprehensive. -- Bashar al-Assad
Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved. -- Arthur C. Clarke
With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies. Then you will be able to fight with advantage. -- Sun Tzu
One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their lives in the search of truths that are irrelevant to them. -- John Silber

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