"The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons."

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Source : "Oscar no-shows: 9 Hollywood stars who snubbed the Academy Awards" by Gina Vivinetto, www.today.com. February 21, 2017.

George C. Scott

#Awards Quotes #Two Quotes #Meat Quotes

“I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.”
“Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.”
“I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.”

Source : "The prosecution of Rebekah Brooks and her husband: the statements", www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.
“I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.”
“My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing”
“I just imagined how fine it would be if the children could adopt mothers, of course, mothers who were single, without other children, living in a comfortable apartment, and ready to care for the children.”
“Shamanism is not a religion. Itâ€™s a method. And when this method is practiced with humility, reverence and self-discipline, the shamanâ€™s path can become a way of life.”
“As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.”

Source : Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”

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