"Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage."

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Source : Dennis Potter, Melvyn Bragg (1994). “An interview with Dennis Potter: an edited transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with Dennis Potter, broadcast on the 5th of April 1994”

Dennis Potter

#Religion Quotes #Wounds Quotes

“It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.”

Source : Harold Bloom (2001). “Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
“Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.”
“He believes that words can be a powerful healing tool if used with loving intention, to uplift, encourage and inspire.”
“If I have to win one game, Iâ€™d have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.”
“There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S.”
“Black people are just constantly immature in their thinking, undisciplined, and we suffer as a people. This is not about race in the sense that black people got to get something better than whites or Latinos or Asians. This is just basically that we keep complaining about what we don't have and what we can't do, and then, when we get in positions to do stuff, we fight amongst ourselves like savages.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.
“Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.”
“If I have to shoot on digital, I will not make the film.”

Source : Source: www.rogerebert.com

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