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“The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.”
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“The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.”
Source : "Dutch Islam Film 'Nearly Ready'". news.bbc.co.uk. February 28, 2008.
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“It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not.”
Source : Clement Greenberg, Robert C. Morgan (2007). “Clement Greenberg, Late Writings”, Univ Of Minnesota Press
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“He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.”
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“I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.”
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“Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.”
Source : "Misfortune". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1886.
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“With Marvel and DC, you're working with their pre-established fictional universes and characters. At those places, you're working with characters who will outlive you and maybe your children and your childern's children. Batman will outlive me, Spider-Man will outlive me, the Avengers will outlive me, and so it goes.”
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“Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust.”