"I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to."

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Source : "Song: 'Wesley's Theory' ('To Pimp a Butterfly')". 2015.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#Looks Quotes #Want Quotes #Way Quotes

“In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.”
“The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God. But while I cannot conceive of such a God, I do recognize the existence of a great universal power - a power which we cannot even begin to comprehend and might as well not attempt to. It may be a conscious mind, or it may not. I don't know. As a scientist I should like to know, but as a man, I am not so vitally concerned.”
“Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress”
“I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.”

Source : "R.I.P. Eli Wallach (1915-2014): Watch Oscar Acceptance Speech, Career Profile, Movie Clips & More" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. June 25, 2014.
“The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.”
“Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you-and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.”
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
“I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.”

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