"I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country."

-- John Philip Sousa

#Country Quotes #Believe Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.”
“The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.”

Source : "The bomb and the opportunity" by Henry L. Stimson, Harper's Magazine, March 1946.
“Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.”

Source : Jeffrey McDaniel (2002). “Splinter Factory”, p.55, Manic D Press
“I actually met a producer of Stanley Kubrick's who told me that Kubrick had never even thought about doing Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer. He just read it and didn't want to do it - that's it. There's a myth around that he said it's not filmable. But he never wanted to film it.”
“In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard when the Chinese negotiate with a ï¿½10 trillion E.U., not a ï¿½1.5 trillion Britain.”

Source : "Labour's mature patriotism over Europe" by Douglas Alexander, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2011.
“When my father made 'Jean de Florette' and 'Manon des Sources' back to back, everybody said, 'Why two movies?' But you need two movies to show how criminality evolves, and to tell the story: You can't show a man in love with so many women in one big biopic.”
“People will give themselves to prayer for numerous reasons, but at the core of it all is a God, raging with zealous desire.”
“I got into the situation where I was extreme right. It turned out that my mother is Jewish, my grandmother is Jewish. I am Jewish. So I can't hate Jewish people.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com

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