"To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration to practice compassion and avoid causing others pain. And to the extent that suffering awakens our empathy and causes us to connect with others, it serves as the basis of compassion and love."

-- Dalai Lama

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“Just as Freud couldn’t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn’t always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.”

Source : "Critical Consensus: Kent Jones and Jonathan Rosenbaum Discuss Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. January 6, 2012.
“I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.”
“Net Neutrality is what makes the Internet so great - and so vital for innovation and creativity.”

Source : "We Need To Put Our Foot Down On Net Neutrality" by Justine Bateman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“I do think that some of my songs, like Take a Minute, are like the train between the two worlds. It starts out with the question of "how did Gandhi ever withstand the hunger strikes and all / he didn't do it to gain power or money as I recall," and its sweep reaches all the way to this part of the world. I think maybe I'm a translator, because I lived in both worlds and truly understand them. I understand the discontent that comes from not having. But I also understand the anxiety that comes from wealth and convenience.”
“Iâ€™ve watched you barely escape death several times, and each instance killed me a little inside. They may be dormant now, but we have enemies both cunning and cruel. Knowing you possess the power to defeat most of them doesnâ€™t threaten me, luv. It relieves me to my very core.”
“Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.”
“In this lifetime, you got two things: Bad and good, and ain't nothin' in between.”
“A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song”

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