"The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values."

-- Harold Prince

#Depressing Quotes #Believe Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Whatever arises from a just situation by just steps is itself just.”

Source : Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”
“In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of what art is, an understanding that is achieved in the way that understanding in each of our lives is achieved, namely, from the mistakes we make, the false paths we follow, the false images we have come to abandon until we learn wherein our limits consist, and then how to live within those limits.”
“I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was working at a feature studio, I'd tell 1% of someone else's story, over the course of four years.”
“A culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and the way they talked; the manner in which they treated death and greeted the newborn.”

Source : Walter Rodney (2012). “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”, p.34, Fahamu/Pambazuka
“I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.”
“I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.”
“I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying...nameless....”

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