"I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself."

-- Anchee Min

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“But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.”
“I have no need to take up each thing that wants to throw its cause on us and show that it is occupied only with itself, not with us, only with its good, not with ours. Look at the rest for yourselves. Do truth, freedom, humanity, justice, desire anything else than that you grow enthusiastic and serve them?”
“Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.”
“We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.”
“If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should approve it or the dealers buy it. They would be wrong.”
“My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!”
“I'm over smoking. You know, I feel like I've gone on long hikes and gotten to the top of the mountain and I'm looking at something beautiful, some great huge landscape, and there's some of the cleanest air that's on the planet. And then I light up, and say, "Ahh, what a great smoking moment this is!" So it's something evil that's taken over, and I want control over it.”
“God's mighty power comes when God's people learn to walk with God.”

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