"It is not the role of the United States to dictate change, but to enter into discussions with our friends."

-- Colin Powell

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“So, too, if, to our surprise, we should meet one of these morons whose remarks are so conspicuous a part of the folklore of the world of the radio--remarks made without using either the tongue or the brain, spouted much like the spoutings of small whales--we should recognize him as below the level of nature but not as below the level of the imagination.”
“We have recognized that the world is changing. How your children are behaving, how their friends are behaving. What they consume and what they watch.”
“I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.”

Source : Source: reflections.yale.edu
“A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.”
“I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.”
“I don't like to be on a set and wait three hours, just to make some lighting adjustments. I like to shoot. That's what I want to do. I'd rather shoot something dumb than wait.”

Source : "Quentin Dupieux Talks WRONG COPS, Fast-Paced Shoots, and His Secret Project with Marilyn Manson". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 25, 2013.
“I'm going to keep on keeping on as long as I've got my health and strength, and God gives me that will to do it.”

Source : "Soul Singer Sharon Jones: 'The Cancer Is Here, But I Want To Perform'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 5, 2016.
“The frequency of leadership going to the gemba is inversely proportional to the number of walls separating them from the gemba.”

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