"Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence."

-- Colman McCarthy

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“Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.”
“No matter how wild reality was obviously often being, it was an absolutely secure place, as a tone and intelligence, and a thing happening.”
“As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.”

Source : "Mike Mills on “Beginners,” a Love Letter to his Father" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. June 3, 2011.
“There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa . Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.”
“Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.”

Source : "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Painting and Culture", p. 56, 1948.
“Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism.... Skepticism they view with contempt, as the refuge of the unenlightened.”
“I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners.”

Source : Interview with A.D. Amorosi, mycitypaper.com. June 12, 2003.
“Speaking as an actress, I wish all actors would be more like Duke Wayne. And speaking as a person, it would be nice if all people could be honest and as genuine as he is. This is a real man.”

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