"The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people... The slavery of animals has to be ended too."

-- Benjamin Zephaniah

#Animal Quotes #People Quotes #Slavery Quotes

“To me, the message of my songs, of all songs, is "enjoy life." My message as a person who evidently doens't have much more planned is the same. It's the only message I ever thought art had any business having.”
“Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.”

Source : 1873 'Conclusion' in Studies in the History of the Renaissance.
“At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.”

Source : "A Lord’s Call To Arms: David Puttnam Addresses Edinburgh" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. June 22, 2009.
“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.”
“I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I find that all these subjects that I'm dealing with tend to lead me to religion and politics one way or another. It's not something that I necessarily want to address, but it seems like it's screaming at me to pay attention to it.”

Source : Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.
“People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.”
“Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.”

Source : Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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