"There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Country Quotes #School Quotes #Government Quotes

“Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.”
“The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This family pattern has never been the norm, except in a narrow middle-class segment.”
“I love what I do and I love being part of the storytelling process. And I love the technological advancements. It was the thing that kept me going on every 20-hour day, 7 days a week. You have to love it to do that.”

Source : "Exclusive interview with Tron: Legacy costume designer Christine Bieselin Clark". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. November 30, 2010.
“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.”
“I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it.”
“The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.”
“The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.”
“In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.”

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