"As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it."

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Hany Abu-Assad

#Reality Quotes #Filmmaker Quotes

“I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue”
“Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.”
“Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.”

Source : "AI can power this decade" by Kenneth Rogoff, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2010.
“The attitude of the true scientist towards the real limits of human understanding was unforgettably impressed on me in early youth by the obviously unpremeditated words of a great biologist; Alfred Kuhn finished a lecture to the Austrian Academy of Science with Goethe 's words, "It is the greatest joy of the man of thought to have explored the explorable and then calmly to revere the inexplorable." After the last word he hesitated, raised his hand in repudiation and cried, above the applause, "No, not calmly, gentlemen; not calmly !”
“Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.”
“Tobacco, in its various forms, is one of the most mischievous of all drugs. There is perhaps no other drug which injures the body in so many ways and so universally as does tobacco. Some drugs offer a small degree of compensation for the evil effects which they produce; but tobacco has not a single redeeming feature and gives nothing in return.”
“The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.”

Source : Jean Giono, John Cumming (2001). “An Italian Journey”, p.36, Northwestern University Press
“We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.”

Source : Edwin J. Delattre (2011). “Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing”, p.7, Rowman & Littlefield

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