"Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a system that has no room for them. It's really a serious issue for me, because to me it's, how do I survive beyond a film that was disgraced or praised?"

-- Haile Gerima

#Issues Quotes #People Quotes #Care Quotes

“Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.”
“Some of the same self-certified smart people, who preached about mushroom clouds and weapons of mass destruction, are once again trying to stampede us into war. They seem to think only with their guns. To those who want to shoot first and ask questions later in Iraq, I join in a firm 'No!' We've been there and done that, and America is still paying for their past failure.”
“A scientist works largely by intuition. Given enough experience, a scientist examining a problem can leap to an intuition as to what the solution 'should look like.' ... Science is ultimately based on insight, not logic.”

Source : Guy Consolmagno (2000). “Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist”, McGraw Hill Professional
“I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always”
“I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you can still have this kind of abstract subliminal quality to take you on a journey, but you can root it just enough in a particular situation, a particular kind of real situation that a person might have, or a particular context in the real world.”
“By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.”
“Killing is like riding, you see. One never really loses the knack.”

Source : "Phantom". Book by Susan Kay, 1990.
“You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads.”

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