"I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest."

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Source : "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.

Iris DeMent

#Christian Quotes #Religious Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction.”
“I love sport, so I'd love to do more stories if I can that deal with sport maybe. Other characters, actually the real guy is so interesting why would you want to get anyone to play them?”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.”
“The American teacher stands on the front lines of poverty and inequity that our fellow Americans refuse to acknowledge, on the front lines of the real social condition of our nationâ€“not the advertised oneâ€“and we stand together. When we look over our shoulders, thereâ€™s no one there backing us up. The rest of the army is off pretending there is no fight to be had here, no excuses to be made, no hardships to decry, no supply lines to worry about, that things in American society are just hunky-dory outside of the fact that the teachers just donâ€™t care enough”
“There's no such thing as a perfect life, but if you hold on to that long enough and watch it get chipped away, that's really hard to deal with. I had no one telling me otherwise.”
“It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.”
“There is nothing - no program, no hobby, no vice, no crime - that does not 'create jobs'. Tsunamis, computer viruses and shooting convenience store clerks all 'create jobs'. So that claim misses the plot; it applies to all so is an argument in favor of none. Instead of an argument on the merits, it is an admission that one has no such arguments.”
“Unbridled capitalism will lead to some very real problems.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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