"I want my children to be able to meet and play and communicate with many other children on their own, not only when they are driven somewhere. I want them to grow up in an environment that is not just a place where people sleep but where people work.. and where people enjoy themselves."

-- Moshe Safdie

#Children Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“I think for a lot of people that had seen me do 'Snabba Cash,' after watching 'The Killing,' I think they got a sense that I could do different kinds of characters.”

Source : "Q&A – Joel Kinnaman (Stephen Holder)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.
“If you werenâ€™t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.”
“In some cultures, when you give someone a gift, it's expected that they will pass it on. This seems like a peculiar practice in the West, but in many other societies, a gift has a spirit. If you try to possess the gift, you remove its spirit as a gift.”
“Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.”
“Don't worry if they're Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they'll become Democrats.”
“My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?”
“The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his consumption also undergoes a specialisation as regards the quality of the goods consumed. He consumes freely and of the best, in food, drink, narcotics, shelter, services, ornaments, apparel, weapons and accoutrements, amusements, amulets, and idols or divinities.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.48, e-artnow
“Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional”

Source : Trinh T. Minh-ha (2014). “When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics”, p.193, Routledge

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