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“Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.”
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“When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.”
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“Whenever I go to shows, I end up looking at what shoes the guy onstage is wearing and the jacket he's got on. And when you know everything's gonna be under scrutiny, it makes you feel more comfortable if you have cool stuff.”
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“A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.”
Source : Leo Szilard (1961). “The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stories”, p.54, Stanford University Press
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“Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.”
Source : "Profile and Interview: Norman Jewison". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January 2004.
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“To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.”
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“We forget most of our dreams because we don't have access to those parts of our brain once we are switched to wakefulness. But why we evolved that way is a puzzle to me.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“The one thing that seems to be consistent through all my work that I like, and I experimented a lot, is the viewer is allowed to meditate on something that normally we don't stop and stare at, whether it's people or a cactus.”