"This whole business of documentary being a second-class citizen is bullshit. A documentary can be as interesting, as dramatic, as sad, as funny, blah, blah, blah, as a fiction movie. Or it can be as awful as a fiction movie!"

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Frederick Wiseman

#Class Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Bullshit Quotes

“I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.”
“When the day of recompense comes, our only regret will be that we have done so little for Him, not that we have done too much.”
“We're going to Surf City, gonna have some fun. Now, two girls for every boy.”
“I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobody caressed me, everybody offended me: I became rancorous. I was gloomy--other children were merry and talkative. I felt myself superior to them--but was considered inferior: I became envious. I was ready to love the whole world--none understood me: and I learned to hate.”
“I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight he seems to be just a poor little scrubby underpaid man, groping blindly amid the mazes of the ultra-microscopic, engaging in bitter and lifelong quarrels over the nephridia of flatworms, waking perhaps one morning to find that someone whose name he has never heard has demolished by a few crucial experiments the work which he had hoped would render him immortal.”
“I've seen people twitter in haiku only.”
“...I don't have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.”
“Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.”

Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.180, W. W. Norton & Company

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