"If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries," I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them."

-- Francois Rabelais

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“Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I don't want [Israel] to be South Africa because we don't believe in apartheid. We simply have to separate from the Palestinians so that we can control our own destinies.”
“We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.”
“The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.”
“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.”
“If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumÃ©. Be professional. Make sure your editor or publisher can always reach you. Do what's asked of you if your conscience can bear it.”
“With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire - conflict, sometimes leading to war, is bound to occur.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.159, Columbia University Press
“The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you want because people are going to be reading it in private. So, I'm always trying to write with the immediacy and the constant motion of film but I'm also trying to write with the complete freedom of subject matter that books have.”

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