"Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction."

-- Claude Levi-Strauss

#Country Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Heart Quotes

“A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.”
“One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful.”
“Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.”
“There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.”
“Everyone had a forever.”
“We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc. In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.”
“Without the ice, the earth will fall”
“At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there.”

Source : Interview by Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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