"When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics."

“Tucker's Witch was the first television I'd done in a while. It was just before Moonlighting, and just before you could get a little more outrageous on TV. We had a great premise.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com

“My father read Günter Grass. He introduced me to German literature. I believe the first book I read by a German author was from Grass. After that, Thomas Mann accompanied me for a few years during my literature studies. I tried again and again to read the original German text, but I never really succeeded.”

“In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.”

Source : John Naisbitt (1988). “Re-Inventing the Corporation”, Random House Value Publishing

“When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.”

“How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine.”

Source : "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

“The ordinary can be like medicine.”

“The life of this world and the hereafter, in the heart of a person are like the two scales of a balance, when one becomes heavier, the other becomes lighter”

“The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.”

Source : Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press