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“Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.”
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“Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse.”
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“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.”
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“It feels amazing to be a role model for people with and without disabilities.”
Source : "Actors with Down syndrome in more films, TV; 'Glee' star Lauren Potter says 'we're just like anybody else'" by Danielle Jones-Wesley, www.foxnews.com. November 20, 2012.
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“Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers. One of these is the stupefaction of man (the "gray mass," to use the cynical term of bourgeois prognosticators) by mass culture with its intentional or commercially motivated lowering of intellectual level and content, with its stress on entertainment or utilitarianism, and with its carefully protective censorship.”
Source : "Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom" by Andrei Sakharov, ("The Threat to Intellectual Freedom"), www.sakharov-center.ru. 1968.
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“Don't go where the puck's been; go where it's gonna be”
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“Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.”
Source : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”