"Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character."

-- P. G. Wodehouse

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“Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.”
“There are days when either filmmaking feels like an insurmountable practice - here's a lot of obstacles in the way to make it happen - or you think, "What does this all add up to?" You don't know what to do with the footage, and you've asked a lot of people for their time and a lot of people to be patient with you. And then you lose faith that you can actually make a worthwhile story out of this.”

Source : "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.
“There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 28, 2015
“If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their authors substitute the fundamental concepts of any particular science for those of metaphysics.”
“It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.”

Source : "Boulez in his own words" by Claire Kohda Hazelton, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2015.
“Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world ...”

Source : SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”
“I'm Australian. I'm assimilated. I was born here - how ocker do I have to be?”
“I have an optimism about what people are willing to do. The greatest force in the world today, believe it or not, are these countless groups of people in every country almost... that are doing things to protect their local environment and to try and protect the earth.”

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