"[Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't be shown again."

-- Roger Ross Williams

#Population Quotes #Film Quotes #Unfortunate Quotes

“I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.”

Source : Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.169, Da Capo Press
“Life, after all, was a secret with the self. The more one gave out, the less there remained for the center--that center which she coveted for herself and recognized instantly in others. Fruits had it, the very heart of, say, a cherry, where the true worth and flavor lay. Some of course were flawed or hollow in there. Many, in fact.”
“Everyone has an idea, but it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea.”
“Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy faith that bounces off unchipped.”
“Enjoy now, another now is coming.”
“An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and impediments which had to be encountered and surmounted, in an almost unexplored and uninhabited wilderness . . . evinced on your part a moral courage and an undaunted spirit and combination of science and management equally exciting our admiration and deserving our praise.”
“As a young girl, if you do something funny - especially if you're Jewish - someone says, 'Oh, have you seen Gilda Radner?'”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

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