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Quotes About Occupation

It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.
~ Graydon Carter
Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
~ Bashar al-Assad
The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels.
~ Kathleen Kenyon
There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
~ Louise Brooks
Our main goal as Iraqi people is to drive the occupation out in any way.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
~ Ice T
What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
~ Zendaya
Every time I enter a country and have to write down my occupation at customs, I'm like, 'I don't know... Author? Host? Writer? Stand-up?' I usually write 'author' - that's the safest bet.
~ Chelsea Handler
I'll call it a day when I die. It's a wonderful occupation for me. I've never worked a day in my life.
~ Tony Bennett
Being infamous is not fun. It becomes a weird occupation in and of itself.
~ Michael Cimino
Writing is a very isolating occupation.
~ Ellen Ullman
My chosen occupation isn't necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.
~ Sarah Gadon
Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
~ Gail Carson Levine
Everybody wants to say females aren't as funny as men. That's not true. You just don't see as many because it takes a lot to do this occupation.
~ Loni Love
It's been a blessing that I can provide for my family just by doing music. I never thought this would ever be my occupation.
~ Zaytoven
Art is not what most people think it to be. It is not an occupation of one-railed people.
~ Gutzon Borglum
As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.
~ Isabelle Holland
Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.
~ Gail Porter
We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.
~ Wayne Rogers
Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.
~ Anita Desai
Tahiti is now completely occupied by materialistic ideas and I think it is wrong.
~ Sterling Hayden
And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.
~ Edwidge Danticat
France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.
~ Jean-Marie Le Pen
I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.
~ Lawrence Wright