"It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it."

-- Jon Krakauer

#Believe Quotes #Desire Quotes #Want Quotes

“I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.”
“If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling conflict.”
“Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.”

Source : David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers
“Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.”

Source : "Epigrams" by Martial, III, 42, c. 80 - 104 AD.
“When I started, we had just the camera and the person, mostly. And if you wanted to do a dolly shot, particularly working in Chicago where I began, you'd get in the back trunk of a car, and you'd have a friend drive the car, or you'd get in some kid's little wagon that he plays with and have someone pull that for dolly shots.”

Source : "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.
“I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end...”

Source : Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.199, Macmillan
“Life is not about making dough or how many movies you can make in a year. It's about finding someone that you can share things with.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am basically a feminist. I think that women can do anything they decide to do.”

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