"When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing."

-- Jean Cocteau

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“Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.”

Source : "The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations". Book by Mark Water, p. 111, 2000.
“The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.”
“For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.”

Source : Source: www.democracynow.org
“The political objective of universal capitalism is maximum individual autonomy, the separation of political power wielded by the holders of public office from economic power held by citizens, and the broad diffusion of privately owned economic power.”

Source : Louis O. Kelso, Patricia Hetter Kelso (1967). “Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals”, New York : Vintage Books
“I really do love football.”
“Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring.”
“What did the president know, and when did he know it?”
“To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.”

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