"Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life."

-- Andrew Young

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“I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble finding parallel examples among my sister photographers. The act of looking appraisingly at a man, making eye contact on the street, asking to photograph him, studying his body, has always been a brazen venture for a woman, though, for a man, these acts are commonplace, even expected.”
“We're in a situation now where we've got five long-play records of sort of eerie psychedelic pop music. I don't think that we can make another one. That's really my position on it. If we were to do a film soundtrack or something else where I could take the rest of the band with me. I really don't think bands should make more than five records anyway. In fact, five is one too many. We'll have to see how it pans out.”

Source : "The Clientele's Alasdair MacLean draws inspiration from hangovers and accidental acid trips". Interview with Maggie Serota, music.avclub.com. February 21, 2010.
“The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.”
“If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.”
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”

Source : "The 2,000 Year Old Man". Animation, Comedy, 1975.
“I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.”
“I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.”

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