Uighur Quotes

#1. The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, named for an old Uighur name for Xinjiang, is a shadowy group that operates largely out of Afghanistan and Pakistan and is devoted to expelling the Chinese Communist Party from northwestern China.

Barbara Demick

#2. On Apple's special store for the Chinese market, apps related to the Dalai Lama are censored, as is one containing information about the exiled Uighur dissident leader Rebiya Kadeer. Apple similarly censors apps for iPads sold in China.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#3. Three of her sisters became queens along the Silk Route, ruling over the grand Turkic nations of Onggud, Uighur, and Karluk.

Jack Weatherford

#4. The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#5. Perhaps the greatest risk any of us will ever take is to be seen as we really are.

Cinderella

#6. God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family so demean themselves. How can one tell who might read it? No worthy book has ever been written for gain, I think;

Iain Pears

#7. One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

Mac Davis

#8. Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#9. I have no fear of death, except I hate waiting for it.

Doug Stanhope

#10. It turns out it takes 30 years for a new idea to seep into the culture. Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change.

Paul Saffo