"A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest."

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John Ralston Saul

#Self Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Tradition Quotes

“Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.”
“It’s a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn’t always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.”

Source : "Fictional character: Raymond Shaw". "The Manchurian Candidate", www.imdb.com. 1962.
“The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.”
“I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.”
“I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.”
“No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'”
“And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween.”
“Going from a short to a feature is like going from crawling to flying. It's a big jump, really. Everything triples - size of crew, budget, shooting days, the cast. Not to mention the stakes - as a first time feature filmmaker so much rides on this film.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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