"I've been a social justice advocate all my life, becoming an activist for women and human rights even in high school, and found ways to weave it in to my later for-profit career. The first film I got involved in was Christy Turlington's "No Woman, No Cry" , which was about the impact of maternal health around the world. It brought this important issue to light, and even though I wasn't in a credit position, I helped her find ways to screen it."

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Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

Julie Smolyansky

#School Quotes #Justice Quotes #Important Quotes

“They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages!”

Source : "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.
“Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.”

Source : Time magazine, July 21, 1961.
“Geographically, Afghanistan is a good place for the terrorists, because it's surrounded by mountains, and there are lots of villages inside mountains, so it's easy for them to hide themselves, or to recruit the people. Whatever they want to do they will do.”
“in the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart... It's motto is --" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.”
“I'm the happiest the saddest guy in the world can be.”
“Anger's not a good emotion.”

Source : "Q&A: Lincoln Chafee". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. September, 2008.
“Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.”
“They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.”

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