"They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news."

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Source : Joel Siegel (2008). “Lessons for Dylan: On Life, Love, the Movies, and Me”, p.3, PublicAffairs

Joel Siegel

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“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, â€œThis is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?â€ Instead they say, â€œNo, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.â€ A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.”
“I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?”
“If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing questions larger than self... I have seen that ennobling effect in people many, many times- expressed by those who found themselves engaged in genuine acts of democratic expression, who claimed their right to define the larger destiny of their community, their nations.”
“It's not going to be easy, but it's going to be awesome. Awesome Ain't Easy.”
“Love Gratefully. This love expands your heart into a greater vessel which can hold yet more love.”
“I have seen many things in my life, many things in war and I have cried may times in my life. But when the runner carries the flame into the stadium, and the birds are freed and all the flags in the world are flying, I cry. I must cry.”
“Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.”

Source : "The Buffalo Trace" by George R. Wilson, Indiana Historical Society Publications, volume 15, number 2, Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, (pp. 189), 1946.
“No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.”

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