"To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires."

-- W. E. B. Du Bois

#Play Quotes #Fire Quotes #Mind Quotes

“And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.”
“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”
“The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.”
“Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.”
“I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.”
“I don't read liner notes and stuff, and I don't read articles very often.”
“There are people - I think this is why there are so many commercial directors doing well in big studio movies, for whom it's not a personal choice - it's "What's the coolest, most effective way to make them laugh, make them scream?" It's a very calculated approach. And that's different. It's not better or worse. It's just a very different approach to filmmaking. That's always been the case.”
“Remember two matters and forget two matters; 1. Remember Allah (SWT) and death. 2. Forget any good that you have done to another and any evil that was done to you by another”

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