"New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed."

-- Jim Harrison

#New York Quotes #Cases Quotes

“I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.”
“I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.”
“We have more than enough programs, organisations, parties, and strategies in the world for the alleviation of suffering and injustice.”

Source : Sulak Sivaraksa (1992). “Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society”
“Don't you know yet that men are full of words that mean nothing? The silence of a woman is a thousand times weightier. You must learn to trust silence. To load it with truth, and to wait.”
“Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.”
“When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write.”

Source : "Carl Reiner on writing a children's book, tweeting, and joking around with Mel Brooks". Interview with Katherine Brodsky, tv.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.
“Take responsibility about what you have on your TV, and about what you are out there supporting.”
“It's just that it's impossible to be a broken or whole person. You can only be a person. You can only exist, you can only belong to yourself, and you can only be responsible for your own happiness or belonging or whatever. That broken-part-piece-whole thing is just a trick of the mortal mind.”

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