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“However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.”
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“The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.”
Source : Peter Matthiessen (2000). “The Peter Matthiessen Reader: Nonfiction, 1959-1991”, Vintage
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“As the tall dark and handsome male star, Carey Grant always stands for male beauty and desirability, whether in a 30s screwball, a 40s film noir, or a 50s romantic comedy. He consequently turns around the orthodox gender between the one who looks and so desires, and the one who is looked at, and so is being desired.”
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“I feel like most of the objects coming through the ports are pretty useless. It sort of speaks to this larger point of how much we're actually taking in versus how much we really need.”
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“I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.”
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“Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.”
Source : Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.259, New York Review of Books
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“My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of "Les Miserables" in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from Psycho (1960). My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs,”
