"You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money."

-- Ryan Phillippe

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“The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.”
“CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to.”
“And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire, they know not what; And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?”
“There was no known cure for a Catholic education.”
“Chennai is one of the scariest crowds to face. Everyone looks so conservative, but once you crack the first joke, they are so appreciatively loud that they will hit you with a laugh that will scare you stiff and yet give you energy. Chennaiites give me the loudest laughs; it's the coolest crowd to perform for.”
“I advise other companies' CEOs, don't fall into the trap where you go, 'Where's the growth? Where's the growth?' Where's the growth?' They feel a tremendous pressure to grow. Well, sometimes you can't grow. Sometimes you don't want to grow. In certain businesses, growth means you either take on bad clients, excess risk, or too much leverage.”
“I remember what it was like to grow up in the South in the 1960s and 1970s. Discrimination isnâ€™t something thatâ€™s easy to oppose. It doesnâ€™t always stare you in the face. It moves in the shadows. And sometimes it shrouds itself within the very laws meant to protect us.”
“We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities of experience.”

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