"We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that."

-- Martin Sheen

#War Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“What I do brings me a lot of money and it puts me on TV so people may look at me like a star but to me, if you're good (at what you do) and keep on improving, then that's what makes you a star in your own way.”
“I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.”
“I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.”
“I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It's very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven't been to paradise if you haven't been to Hawaii.”
“I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures”
“Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.”
“I remember having a friend overnight, and lots of giggling after the lights were out. And seemingly long silences followed by â€œAre you asleep yet?â€ and, sometimes, some pretty serious discussions about God and Life.”
“He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.”

Source : Poul Anderson (2015). “Starfarers”, p.483, Open Road Media

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