"I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York."

-- Vera Farmiga

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“It is impossible to put into words what we have been through. What happened exceeded our boldest dreams. The Germans fled twice from the ghetto... My life's dream has come true. Defense in the ghetto has become a fact. Armed Jewish resistance and revenge are actually happening. I have witnessed the glorious and heroic combat of the Jewish fighters.”
“It is easy to be grateful for a bonus; it is character to be grateful for a salary.”
“In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.”
“I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.”

Source : "Taraji Henson Defies Odds On And Off Screen". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 19, 2009.
“What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (1992). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.160, Harvard University Press
“Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”

Source : Attributed; no source found
“We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle: these are our brothers. All things are connected like the blood which unites one's family.”
“I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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