"Your life isn't made up of people who aren't in it."

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Source : "TCA 2012: David Geffen on the Waning Power of Stars, Crazy Rumors and What's Wrong With Hollywood" by Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 22, 2012.

David Geffen

#People Quotes #Made Quotes

“Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as 'controversial, 'extremist', 'explosive', 'disgraceful', and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues? It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see.”
“Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through His grace, freely devoted to His service.”

Source : Joseph Alleine, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Alarm to the Unconverted”, Lulu.com
“Enemies were teachers in disguise.”

Source : Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S. Terry (1989). “Way of Life and Death”, Pocket
“Of course, Jesus was the most courageous man who ever lived. He prayed and asked God to take the cup from Him before He went to the cross, but He still went because He knew that's what He was supposed to do.”
“I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.”
“Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me.”

Source : Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press
“Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.”

Source : "Once-stricken saxman: Music 'gave me my life'". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2008.
“The artistâ€™s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.”

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