"Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government - but the reverse... If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom..."

-- Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

#Ideas Quotes #Government Quotes #Political Quotes

“I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.”
“I spent hours on the internet looking at how glamorous actresses winked and how they would put their hand on their waist, and I was told to look at how they would walk in a room and how her body takes place of everything”

Source : "[Cannes Interview] ‘The Artist’ Director Michel Hazanavicius and Star Berenice Bejo". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. May 18, 2011.
“A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.”

Source : Leslie T. Chang (2010). “Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China”, p.61, Pan Macmillan
“I know I looked skinnier in The House Bunny, but thanks to my diet of beer and doughnuts, I'm back to my fightin' weight!'”
“Hire the best people you can find. This was kind of easy in the early days of foursquare - we hired our friends who were really passionate about the stuff they were building. We have a superstar team not just because their resumes are so strong, but because they've been passionate, thinking about and tinkering in this space forever. Those are the people you want to surround yourself with.”
“The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“It'd be tricky to read into my lyrics - some are autobiographical, but sometimes I just like the sound of words.”
“Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics.”

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