"My education was an education by movies."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Robert Benton

“The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.”
“Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.”
“Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.”
“If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.”

Source : "How My B.S. Detector Works" by Penn Jillette, bigthink.com. 2017.
“What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.”
“Donâ€™t get married in a house where there is no toilet,”
“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.”
“I think I was a singer before I came out of the womb. I also think that the way you live your life, and the choices you make parallel what doors open up for you.”

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