"Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality."

-- Jeanette Winterson

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“I'm really not into that super-crazy-colour, smiley-faces-on-the-front-of-your-dress look. That's not my thing. You're not going to see me in pink. Or anything frilly. Or a tutu. Or bows.”

Source : "The close-up". Interview with Simon Chilvers, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2009.
“It was difficult in India to find an eight year old who could play a widow. The reason for that is that most of the children in India are really exposed to Bollywood. It's commercial Indian cinema which is really over the top. To find an actor, or even a non-actor, who felt natural was difficult.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.”
“Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.”
“Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever.”
“You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.”
“Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world.”
“It is our duty to make this world a better place for women.”

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