"Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades."

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Source : Karl Shapiro (1964). “the Bourgeois Poet”

Karl Shapiro

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“I knew [Jesse Owens'] name, but I really didn't remember what it is he had done, so I felt like I had to get refreshed. So I read the script and I realized like, wow, this is an incredible human being. I told my manager, however I had to do it, let me see the director; I got to play him.”
“In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably ***** ways of acquiring riches, there is no doubt that coming generations will think that our form of world trade and distribution of the world's benefits were just as inconceivable and inhuman.”
“I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.”
“The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.”
“We know next to nothing about the relationship between Chavez and Raul Castro. One thing, though, is certain. The Cuban military and political elite do not regard Chavez as a logical successor to Fidel Castro in Latin America.”
“The sound is very much always in my head, I have to get the sound out of my head onto the recording.”
“Sometimes you have to kind of keep proving that you're improvising. That's the game, or the goal, of long-form TV improv, is that you have to kind of keep reminding and showing people that you're improvising, because they won't believe you really.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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