"It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force."

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Source : Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 8, 2011.

Bill Keller

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“We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain.”
“Far worse it is To lose than never to have tasted bliss.”
“The biggest misconception about me and my work is that I only make political films denouncing human-rights atrocities, even though all of my films are about people fighting for their rights and their quest for justice. My films aren't depressing, are very human, and always offer a way forward.”
“They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen. [Lat., Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipse.]”
“People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.”
“Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.”

Source : "A Conversation With Fashion Icon Ozwald Boateng on Style, Africa, and His New Film A Man’s Story". Interview with Govindini Murty, Jason Apuzzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.
“Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. Now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. The silence of the scrub was primordial. The wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world-or the last.”
“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”

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