"If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down."

-- Jack Valenti

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“There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.”
“You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and itâ€™s vital that a change happens now.”
“The more my fans know about my past, the more they'll be able to predict and understand some of the moves I make in the future.”
“Despite the fact that Starbucks has grown to be a large company. We've always played music in our stores and has always acted as an opportunity to create a mood in our stores. And customers started asking, "What song are you playing and can I buy that?" . And we said "No." And that was kind of the catalyst for beginning to look at music. We started out with our own compilations and after the success of that. We had the courage to say, "Let's produce our own record." and the first record was with Ray Charles before he unfortunately passed away.”
“If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.”

Source : Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.109, Penguin
“I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.”
“Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.”
“I moved to L.A., and people said that I would never find work, that I would never find good friends, and I feel like I was fortunate enough to find the work, but it wouldn't mean anything unless I had a group of people who could appreciate it.”

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