"When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'."

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Idries Shah

#Wise Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Names Quotes

“The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.”

Source : Said in 1936. Prologue to "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz, 1993.
“I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures”
“We can be certain that God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that he ordains. The will of God will never take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.”
“We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering. If we could feel that one person every six seconds dies of starvation ... we would stop it. ... If we could really feel it in the bowels, the groin, in the throat, in the breast, we would go into the streets and stop the war, stop slavery, stop the prisons, stop the killing, stop destruction.”

Source : Julian Beck (1972). “The Life of the Theatre: The Relation of the Artist to the Struggle of the People”, Amadeus Press
“I think that there's no doubt that to work in film is a bit more of a creative journey. It's not that I don't put the same time or heart into something that's on television.”
“The moment right now, it's a tragically regressive time we live in, you know. We just grounded the Concorde. Where's the future? We've lost the future.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com
“I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.”
“It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.”

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