"It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one."

-- Janis Ian

#Needs Quotes #Looks Quotes #Human Condition Quotes

“Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.”

Source : "Momentum and Emotion, Emir Kusturica’s 'Black Cat, White Cat'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. September 09, 1999.
“To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;”
“If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.”
“Socks may eat wherever they want to.”
“It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.”
“There be three sorts of government--monarchical, aristocratical, democratical; and they are apt to fall three several ways into ruin--the first, by tyranny; the second, by ambition; the last, by tumults. A commonwealth grounded upon any one of these is not of long continuance; but, wisely mingled, each guards the other and makes that government exact.”
“I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.”
“America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.”

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