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Vanessa Redgrave

"How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation fought the Nazis, millions of people gave their lives against the Soviet Union's regime, didn't they? Because of what? Democracy. And what democracy meant. No torture, no camps, no detention forever or without trial, without charges. In solitary confinement. Those techniques which are not just alleged, they have actually been written about by the FBI. I don't think it's being far left - I hope that I'm wrong to consider that it's far left to uphold the rule of law."

-- Vanessa Redgrave

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“If you look at all forms of collectivism, be it communism or fascism, people are reduced to animals.”
“My films often have a very strong strain of irony, or even sarcasm, which is definitely related to homosexual camp. But it is by no means straightforward: quite often I am sincere when I appear to be sarcastic, and I am sarcastic when I appear to be sincere. I also try to contradict myself at least once a day, which is a camp must.”

Source : "Brucito Subversivo". Interview with Jane Harris, logger.believermag.com. May 29, 2014.
“Lay the burden at the feet of the Savior.”
“If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.”
“You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.”
“All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.”
“The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food.”

Source : Wilbur Olin Atwater (1894). “Foods: nutritive value and cost”, p.20
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.”

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