"I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable."

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Source : "Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2014.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#Believe Quotes #Past Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society is based on both a politics and history that have been disguised as a solid society of solid male poems, a solid written language, fixed rules of how to write literature, and a narrative language.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I donâ€™t understand all the nuances of the womenâ€™s movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge the dominant paradigm, not only of patriarchy, but of where the original wealth came from and the relationship of that wealth to other peoples and the earth. That is the only way that that I think you can really get to the depth of the problem.”
“It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.”
“History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success.”

Source : Scott Berkun (2007). “The Myths of Innovation”, p.23, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
“Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.”
“The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.”

Source : "Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge Turned the '2016 Black Experience' Into the 'Luke Cage' Soundtrack". Interview with Justin Davis, www.complex.com. October 5, 2016.
“If you're rolling over rocks and stuff and you have a bigger wheel, it's going to stay out of the holes - rough sections become smoother.”

Source : Interview with Chris Aung-Thwin, www.askmen.com. October 13, 2013.
“Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating in moderation and being physically active (literally, having the energy to exercise) are not evidence of moral rectitude. Rather, they're the metabolic benefits of a body that's programmed to remain lean.”

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