"I have always been reasonably leery of religion because there are so many edicts in religion, 'thou shalt not,' or 'thou shalt.' I wanted my world of the future to be clear of that."

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Gene Roddenberry

#World Quotes #Clear Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin' don't seem impossible once you've clapped eyes on a whale.”
“You may give a piece of bread to a hungry person, and when the cravings of hunger return some one else must administer to his wants again; to put that person in a position to earn his own subsistence is true charity; in this way you direct his feet in the path of true independence, he is then only dependent on his own exertions and on the blessings of his God.”
“Bad sales managers push two buttons: 'more' and 'panic.' Great sales managers have one more button to push: the 'how'.”
“By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure and displeasure...on the one hand, we have to make the most of our lives; on the other, we have to be sorry and punish ourselves if we don't succeed in doing so. This is a perversion of a very beautiful idea: that everyone has a right to control his own destiny and to improve his life.”

Source : "Perpetual Euphoria On the Duty to Be Happy". Book by Pascal Bruckner, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.
“I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.”
“I became more curious about the story behind the story [in the House of Cards]. So what was really going on behind the headline? And it's a little bit sad that that show, it doesn't seem so much like entertainment the way it did back when we started doing it.”
“It's such a surprise for the Eastern eyes to see, That though the English are effete They're quite impervious to heat.”
“In the world of imagination, all things belong.”

Source : Richard Hugo (1992). “The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing”, p.19, W. W. Norton & Company

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