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“If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.”
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“Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I like to believe that stories want to be written, that they must make an effort in order to be heard. They suggest themselves to me constantly, but I have little patience, I am lazy. Now and then, however, when I'm in the right mood, I stop to listen to one and sit down to record it. I think that by now they know I am not patient, so they make themselves short.”
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“Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”
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“At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.”
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“E-mail also changed things in that you don't have to write a full document to discuss something. You can just send an e-mail to a list.”
Source : "Meet the Man Who Invented the Instructions for the Internet". Interview with Cade Metz, www.wired.com. May 18, 2012.
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“Seve wore his emotions on his sleeve. You could see how much the guy cared about winning.”
Source : "Reaction to the death of Seve Ballesteros". www.foxnews.com. May 7, 2011.
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“The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding”