"We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling."

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Source : Source: www.esquire.com

Joshua Oppenheimer

#Distance Quotes #Reality Quotes #Storytelling Quotes

“You cannot know God until you've stopped telling yourself that you already know God. You cannot hear God until you stop thinking that you've already heard God. I cannot tell you My Truth until you stop telling Me yours.”
“Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You cant be ridiculously disrespectful.”

Source : "Beyond the copy: Xerox CEO keeps focus on the business process". "Conversations from the Corner Office" with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. May 18, 2011.
“Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.”

Source : "Rosetta mission: Philae craft may have bounced during comet landing - as it happened" by Stuart Clark, James Kingsland, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2014.
“If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them,”
“To be a super-trader, you'll need an edge to overcome the laws of probability and the uncertainty of the marketplace. That edge comes from information flow, the ability to correct your habits in terms of the market's characteristics, and being able to take risks, cut losses, expand your information network, ferret out ideas, and take recommendations.”
“Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.”
“Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.”
“Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.”

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