"A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population."

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Source : Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

Jock Sturges

#People Quotes #Population Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, 'Flying Fingers,' debuted; since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.”
“Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month.”
“We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.”
“The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful.”

Source : "Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up: A Practical Approach for Modern Life". Book by B. Alan Wallace, 1993.
“I'm kind of a weirdo about Krazy Glue. I don't know why, but I always have it in my purse.”
“Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.”

Source : 'The Constant Couple' (1699) act 5, sc. 3.
“I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.”
“I try to bring as much taste, smartness, quality, functionality, and aesthetic qualities to everyday clothes.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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