"As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that."

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Source : "Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 9, 2012.

Eugene Jarecki

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“Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.”
“If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.”
“My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!”
“There is no such thing as a free variable.”
“I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.”

Source : "Lily Collins Feels The 'Momentum' Going Into 2011". Interview with Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. January 10, 2011.
“Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.”
“Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.”
“Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile human endeavor. It is concerned with more than grades, attendance, and academic achievement. It is concerned with the process of becoming a decent and productive human being.”

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