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“I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn.”
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“Realization is not knowledge about the universe, but the living experience of the nature of the universe. Until we have such living experience, we remain dependent on examples, and subject to their limits.”
Source : Namkhai Norbu (1986). “The Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen”, p.94, Shambhala
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“Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.”
Source : Indira Gandhi (1985). “Selected Thoughts of Indira Gandhi: A Book of Quotes”, p.67, Mittal Publications
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“Spin-off technologies are changing the culture. Even if you don't become an engineer you could be a poet, a journalist, a lawyer, but you will be thinking innovation and your actions within society, who you vote for, what you value, all become a participant in an innovation economy.”
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“I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is completely different. It's for presenting an imaginative version of the world which I hope people would recognize and be affected by.”
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“The war on drugs is a war against the communities.”
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“When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.”
Source : Interview With Rob Smyth, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2004.
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“You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be patient and keep going, and then, one day, you can feel something signaling to you from the innermost recesses. Like a little person trapped under the rubble of an earthquake. And very, very, very slowly you find your way toward the little bit of living impulse.”