"It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments."

-- Feisal Abdul Rauf

#Adventure Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Bridges Quotes

“If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.”
“We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even know what they were looking at. It's still visual storytelling, but it's approached completely different. The two mediums don't have to be separate mediums. They can be one and the same.”
“When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.”

Source : "Bill Paxton - No more days of 'Hey, aren't you Chet?'". Interview with Jonathan Litt, tech.mit.edu. May 02, 1997.
“A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.”
“And if you look at the experience of Turkey, for example, where the modern Islamists are in power and are doing fine - this is very good. Because democracy is not possible in the Muslim world without bringing in the Islamists or part of the Islamists who hate us now into these governments.”
“Fairness is not even an issue [on penalty taking]”
“The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.”

Source : John Millington Synge, Ann Saddlemyer (1998). “Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays”, p.28, Oxford University Press, USA
“Sometimes I feel kind of wrong here. I used to be normal, but now... I don't know. I feel like I should be one way, but I'm not." Toby stared at her. "I hear that." He sighed. "There are all these perfect people here. And... it's like, if you're not one of the,. then you're messed up. But I think, inside, the flawless-looking people are just as messed up as we are.”

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