Quotes by Alan Brien - Page 1

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
Alan Brien / Journalist
Illiterate
Repartee
Violence
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I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.
Alan Brien / Journalist
Activity
Doe
Done
Drainage
Human Activity
Taxi
Main
Require
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The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.
Alan Brien / Journalist
Country
Fashion
Organized Mind
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You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.
Alan Brien / Journalist
Home
Sight
Winning
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New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.
Alan Brien / Journalist
New York
Food
Cities
World
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The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.
Alan Brien / Journalist
Collecting
Debt
Impression
Majority
Occupation
Waiting
Congenial
Drafted
Period
Emergency
Martial
Slum
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When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding as an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege - then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.
Alan Brien / Journalist
Agreement
Country
Special
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