"He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams."

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Source : Justina Chen (2009). “North of Beautiful”, p.119, Hachette UK

Justina Chen

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“The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.”

Source : "Feeding Frenzy" by Laura Shapiro, www.newsweek.com. May 26, 1991.
“To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.”
“My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.”
“If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.”
“Growing up, it was difficult to find role models I could relate too. Mass media told me to emulate sexy singers or sexy actresses. Jane Goodall was the closest thing I found to a woman I wanted to be like.”
“My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife.”
“I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet to me like the sudden springing of a tune, And the sight of a white church above thin trees in a city square Amazes my eyes as though it were the Parthenon.”
“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.”

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