"I felt like any individual's recovery was more important than the film I was making. And I actually felt that my presence was a form of witness that communicated to the people I was following that their lives mattered."

-- Brian Lindstrom

#Recovery Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.”

Source : "Carol Vorderman: I'm single for the first time in my life - and I really like it!" by Julie McCaffrey, www.mirror.co.uk. September 28, 2011.
“Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.”

Source : "Fashion Police Star George Kotsiopoulos Talks Best Holiday and Winter Trends". Interview with Chrissy Lorenzo, www.justluxe.com. December 29, 2011.
“Somebody said once 'Follow the money' and that is what it is all about.”
“For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie.”
“Life is a game like any other; we just don't take it as seriously.”
“Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that are all over the world that we've had to lengthen.”
“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”
“Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.”

Source : "Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography".

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