"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap peopleâ€™s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the â€œNation,â€ itâ€™s time for all of us to sit up and worry."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Art Quotes #Independent Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“As primitive as digital can be, there is nothing automatic in the methods I use, it's all basically done by hand. I know nothing about computers. I don't like computers. I use them for writing because I have to. I have never had a conversation about computers in my life.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I deposit in many banks including the bank of wisdom. The more I draw on my accounts, no matter how big the sum, the bigger my balance becomes”
“Always set goals, and work as hard as you can. You'll be amazed at what you can do.”
“To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.”
“Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.”
“I'm really into sci-fi. The reason I'm an actor is because of 'Star Wars' - I saw that and I knew that's what I wanted to do. But most of the projects I'm offered as an actor are straightforward dramas, so I haven't really been given a chance to do that kind of role.”

Source : "Sam Claflin, Finnick Odair: An Interview With The ‘Catching Fire’ Heartthrob". Interview with Dana Matthews, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2013.
“If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.”
“I can't wait to get my memory back. It sounds like I am a really cool person”

Source : John C. Wright (2006). “Fugitives of Chaos”, p.72, Macmillan

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