"Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle."

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Source : "Chazz Palminteri: Feeling Mighty Fine" by Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.

Chazz Palminteri

#Violence Quotes #Subjects Quotes

“Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”

Source : TheWay of theWorld act 2, sc. 1 (1700)
“I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a middle-class family who didn't have the funds to say, "Here, kid. Here's your money for school." So I worked real hard during the summer and saved money and was able to go to school for a year and borrowed a little money which I paid back after that first year.”
“At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.”
“I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.”
“This is terrific! What fun! Maybe tomorrow I can go to the prom with my brother. The day after, perhaps I can wear white pants and unexpectedly get my period.”
“These days, in our materialistic culture, many people are led to believe that money is the ultimate source of happiness. Consequently, when they donâ€™t have enough of it they feel let down. Therefore, it is important to let people know that they have the source of contentment and happiness within themselves, and that it is related to nurturing our natural inner values.”
“The future depends on what we do in the present.”
“What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.”

Source : Jean Gebser (1985). “The Ever-Present Origin”

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