"He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world."

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Arthur C. Clarke

#Real Quotes #Video Quotes #World Quotes

“I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet.”
“I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.”

Source : Brennan Manning, Michael W. Smith (2000). “The ragamuffin Gospel”, Multnomah
“A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.”
“I did my best, and God did the rest.”
“Of all sports, football seems to be the most sanctioned homosocial opportunity for straight men to be with each other, pat butts, struggle, strive, and take showers together. All that talk of tight ends and penetration. The reason there are face masks on those helmets is so that can't kiss each other.”

Source : Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.60, Bywater Books
“Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks idealism in any form, and hence belief in a hereafter is absolutely foreign to him. And a religion in the Aryan sense cannot be imagined which lacks the conviction of survival after death in some form. Indeed, the Talmud is not a book to prepare a man for the hereafter, but only for a practical and profitable life in this world.”
“They did a lot of cleaning in their house, which I considered to be a sign of immoral parenting. The job of parents, as I saw it, was to watch television and step into a child's life only when absolutely necessary, like in the event of a tornado or a potential kidnapping.”

Source : Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.111, Broadway Books
“The magic of documentary is that I keep being surprised and amazed by the things I film.”

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