"[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important."

-- Raoul Peck

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“The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.”
“As I see it, a lukewarm Christian is an oxymoron; there is no such thing. To put it plainly, churchgoers who are 'lukewarm' are not Christians. We will not see them in heaven.”
“Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.”
“Absolute freedom doesn't exist and never did. Just as we don't spit on the floor at work, swear at customers, or send out letters full of misspellings, so too we might have to 'watch our language.' It is odd that the request for unbiased language in schools and workplaces is considered intolerable when other limits on our freedom to do whatever we want are not.”
“I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.”

Source : "Wall-E is Hollywood's new star, so why is he causing an eco row?" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2008.
“Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.”

Source : "The Long And Short Of Treasury Bond Yields". The Daily Reckoning, www.businessinsider.com. Novemebr 29, 2010.
“I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.”
“I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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