"Oh heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm - that's all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm alive!"

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Source : 'Look Back in Anger' (1956) act 1

John Osborne

#Voice Quotes #Long Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“Berta Caceres was a Lenca Indian activist well-known in her country, shot in her home. She was not only known in Honduras, she was one of the world's best-known environmentalists and had recently opposed plans for a dam on a river considered sacred by the Lenca. Honduran police have said they are investigating the murder as a botched robbery, but many of her colleagues believe Caceres was targeted.”
“You cannot lecture another people about what you think is right or wrong based on your value system unless you're willing to accept others imposing their value system on you.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential.”
“I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.”

Source : Shannon Hale (2010). “Princess Academy”, p.173, A&C Black
“You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.”
“I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.”
“The most temptation I'd experienced had been with Tomas, the Senate's spy who had been feeding off me without permission, and Mircea, who was probably plotting some nefarious scheme. I have no taste in men.”
“I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

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

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