"The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace."

-- Edgar Quinet

#War Quotes #History Quotes #Mask Quotes

“Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.”
“I'd much rather speak up and stand behind something I believe in than worry about pissing off a couple hundred people. And if they're more pissed off than if I never said anything, well, sorry but not sorry.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.”
“I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.”
“When industry people see something different they don't know what to do with it, so filmmakers who make films about women, they kind of fall through the cracks. If a woman filmmaker makes film about war, they say "Okay, this is a war film, it has ninety percent men in it, we know what to do with it." But then it still gets attacked for not doing it properly. But even though it bothers me I don't want to dwell on the sex and gender thing.”

Source : "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.
“I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have #â€Ž Christmas every day!”
“A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.”
“The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act.”

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