"I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine."

-- Gene Hackman

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“It's very inexpensive to give a compliment.”
“Tejano music is a very relaxing style and it reminds me of home.”
“The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.”

Source : David Barton (1991). “America, to Pray Or Not to Pray?: A Statistical Look at What Hapened When Religious Principles Were Separated from Public Affairs”, Wallbuilder Press
“And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.”

Source : "David Benioff" by Jason Bateman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.
“Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.”

Source : Peter Shaffer (1993). “Amadeus: A Drama”, Samuel French, Inc.
“I'm on a show called Wizards of Wavery Place, and I like it, but I'm unable to convince my Tivo that I wouldn't also like iCarly.”
“What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gainedâ€”though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.”
“Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?”

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