"Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?"

-- Peter Stone

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“As editor of the largest newspaper in West Virginia, I scan hundreds of reports daily . . . and I am amazed by the frequency with which religion causes people to kill each other. It is a nearly universal pattern, undercutting the common assumption that religion makes people kind and tolerant.”

Source : James A. Haught (1995). “Holy Hatred: Religious Conflicts of the '90s”
“Television will do anything for a rating... anything!”
“Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.”
“I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.”

Source : "Interview: Rupert Friend Talks Directing Short Film Debut ‘Steve,’ Starring Knightley and Firth". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. September 26, 2012.
“The stats win nothing. I'm still sexy. I'm still great.”
“My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.”
“Barack Obama is the President of the United States, a politician in America, a very religious country, so I understand why he has to pretend to be a religious person himself. I say pretend because, I can only hope that someone as bright as he, wouldn't really believe that people can walk on water and ride a winged horse and rain frogs and you can change water into wine.”
“Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.”

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