"I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture."

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Jean Shepherd

#Culture Quotes #Moments Quotes #Historic Quotes

“Sometimes people say oh you did one of my favorite movies and I will ask them what the other one is and it's always something that I totally hate.”

Source : "Interview with Vamps Director Amy Heckerling". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2012.
“Cleaning is my favorite way to relax. I clear things out and get rid of the stuff I don't need. When the food pantry and the refrigerator are organized, I feel less stressed.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Congress passed the 1887 General Allotment Act. And that act ended up dispossessing tribes of 90 million acres. That history of dispossession was also accompanied by a history of forced assimilation whether it was in residential schools, whether it was in dismantling traditional tribal governance structures. And the justifications for that is that you're not as good as us. Our systems are better. Our modes of education. Our ways of owning land, our ways of working have been continually cited to Indians as the reason for these government policies.”
“When I look at myself in the mirror, I don't see the bad guy.”
“Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.”
“Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.”
“If it is the case that our activities depend on how we ourselves see them, what we believe about them, then if we have crazy, fuzzy ideas about teaching, we will be likely to do crazy and fuzzy things in its name.”
“My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.”

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