"This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out."

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Patrick Ness

“It's not that I don't want to, it's just that there's no money in it. By that I mean the way the video business works now, the artist and the record label send out a song to a bunch of different directors and say, 'What would you do with this?' Then everyone has to come up with an idea and bid on it. For me, it's like, 'Hey, you want me to do it? Then pay me. I'm not auditioning for you.'”
“Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.”
“This is Christmas â€“ the season of perpetual hope.”
“I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.”
“That's progress: when we prove things wrong.”

Source : "My wish: Find the next Einstein in Africa". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.
“The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.”

Source : Leslie Stephen (1873). “Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking”, p.52
“We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.”
“Brothers and sisters, our democracy has been hijacked. Brothers and sisters, all electoral freedoms in this country are over so long as it's controlled by corporations. Brothers and sisters, we are not going to allow these streets to be taken over by the Democrats or the Republicans. Because it's all of us who have built this city, and we can tear it down unless they give us what we need.”

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