"I don't consider myself to be a crusader of any sort. I was bystander to a certain number of newspaper crusades. They end badly, in terms of being either fraudulent or by inspiring legislations that makes things worse. So, I regard myself as someone coming to the campfire with the truest possible narrative he can acquire."

-- David Simon

#Bystanders Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.”
“My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.”
“Much of the visualizing is imaginative.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”

Source : Adam Smith, comte Germain Garnier, Dugald Stewart (1835). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.96
“He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.”

Source : Jamie Ford (2014). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Songs of Willow Frost: Two Bestselling Novels: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Songs of Willow Frost”, p.191, Ballantine Books
“I don't like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat.”
“Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed in the spectacle run by a machine? However, a more appropriate allegory is that of the viewer himself: beneath the illusion that we "just look" at the perceived objects from a safe distance, freely sliding along them, there is the reality of the innumerable ties that bind us to what we perceive.”
“My life/career is more filled with left-field thrills than I could ever have hoped for.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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