"When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended."

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Publilius Syrus

#Knowing Quotes #Imitation Quotes #Mischief Quotes

“Judo is a study of techniques with which you may kill if you wish to kill, injure if you wish to injure, subdue if you wish to subdue, and, when attacked, defend yourself”
“A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.”
“The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.”

Source : "Katt Williams: Scary, Crazy or Genius?". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. April 11, 2013.
“Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms,”
“A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.”

Source : Chester Irving Barnard (1968). “The Functions of the Executive”, p.283, Harvard University Press
“There's only, like, five perfectly symmetrical people in the world, and they're all movie stars, and they should be, because their faces are very pleasing to look at, but the rest of us are just a jangle of stuff, and the earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.”
“This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.”
“The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.”

Source : 1978 New Statesman,17 Aug.

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