"A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest."

-- Karen Allen

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“People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.”
“You're either selfish, or you're a servant...but fundamentally selfish people are terrible friends, terrible lovers, terrible spouses, terrible Christians, terrible parents. They leave a terrible legacy. Will you be selfish? Will you be a servant?...A good marriage is a servant and a servant.”
“Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.”

Source : Charles Buck (1831). “Anecdotes, religious, moral, and entertaining”, p.164
“The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.”
“The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.”
“People shy away from it [MMA] because they think it's a brutal, brutal sport, and I've said, 'Guys, MMA is safer than football and boxing,... And people tell me they don't believe it. Am I not the most credible person to give you the answer to that?”
“The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.”
“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”

Source : "To Be Young, Gifted and Black : Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words" by Lorraine Hansberry, (p. 137), 1969.

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