"The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was even hard to discover, it was almost a parody of corruption. The behavior of the delegates in New York is comically corrupt as well. The amazing thing is that there are still people who want to give the UN MORE power, and to become a real world government... Sigh"

-- John Hamill

#New York Quotes #Real Quotes #Government Quotes

“I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies.”

Source : Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2012.
“The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all ***** and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.”
“Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.”

Source : "Native Son". Book by Richard Wright, 1940.
“If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no longer have that choice: the televisual has become an intrinsic and determining element of our cultural formation.”

Source : Philip Auslander (2002). “Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture”, p.2, Routledge
“That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.”
“If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.”
“I talk to millions of people every day. I just like it when they can't talk back.”
“There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.”

You may also like:

Beryl Reid
Actress
Cornel Wilde
Actor
George Cukor
Film director
Michael Apted
Director
Richard Pryor
Comedian
Robert Urich
Film actor