Fred Polak famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures. As long as a societyâ€™s image is positive and flourishing, the flower of culture is in full bloom. Once the image begins to decay and lose its vitality, however, the culture does not long survive
-- Fred Polak

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When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change.
-- Fred Polak

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Tell me what your vision of the future and I will tell you what you are.
-- Fred Polak

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If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.
The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.
I don't know much, but I know I love you... that may be all there is to know.
You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string
When you fall for the one that owns you, sheâ€™ll be the only one that has the power to make you cry.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however clear why people should require their personal beliefs to be treated with special sensitivity by others, to the point that if others fail to tip-toe respectfully around them they will start throwing bombs.
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

Fred Polak famous quotes

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