"Let us not settle for what is simply 'OK' when we have full information on what can create lasting change."

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Source : "An Open Letter to Starbucks and ‘USA Today’" by Rinku Sen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2015.

Rinku Sen

#Lasting Change Quotes #Information Quotes #Settling Quotes

“I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.”
“I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.”
“Advertising will get more and more targeted until it disappears, because perfectly targeted advertising is just information.”
“I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.”
“It's great that we're bringing democracy to Iraq. I can't wait to see how we do it! What are we gonna do, give them our civics textbooks?”
“I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.”
“Politics is different than movies. Politics are controlled by leaders. Leaders of every country have different interests. And they try to explain to their people why they should take one side or the other side. But in the movie its doing the opposite. It allows you to have a Universal Experience. You don't watch it as politics but as a movie. You don't have different reactions all over. It's so universal a language. It's not a political language serving a political agenda. The language of cinema is a world language. With the Hollywood movie, it brings about the same reaction wherever it goes.”

Source : "Paradise Now Director Hany Abu-Assad Speaks". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. October 24, 2005.
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”

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