"Obama wants to stand for a peaceful, generous, encompassing approach that would bring all Americans, but not just Americans, the whole of international society, together to advance civilization towards what we all understand is necessary to advance. Because of that he's being subjected to very serious rejections from the reactionary portion of the system, which, unfortunately, is the dominant portion."

-- Gilberto Gil

#Civilization Quotes #Rejection Quotes #Peaceful Quotes

“You have to have other things in your life apart from swimming to focus on. It's not going to be just swimming in my life.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.”
“A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.”
“I think I got from my father and my mother a sense of morality, of the do's and don't's in society; the notion that good people don't do this; good people are responsible, good people participate in community, and good people vote, good people own land. These were things I heard from my father's pulpit.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu
“I find it really hard to even read another script while shooting.”
“We are the buffoons of our children.”
“People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.”
“It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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