"I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn."

-- Oliver Stone

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“I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.”
“I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.”
“People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Representative André Carson (D, Ind.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 27, 2010.
“In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.”

Source : "Who Killed Childhood?". www.city-journal.org. Spring 2004.
“When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you.”
“Big Data allows us to see patterns we have never seen before. This will clearly show us interdependence and connections that will lead to a new way of looking at everything. It will let us see the â€˜real-timeâ€™ cause and effect of our actions. What we buy, eat, donate, and throw away will be visual in a real-time map to see the ripple effect of our actions. That could only lead to mores-conscious behavior.”
“The process of growth is, it seems, the art of falling down. Growth is measured by the gentleness and awareness with which we once again pick ourselves up, the lightness with which we dust ourselves off, the openness with which we continue and take the next unknown step, beyond our edge, beyond our holding, into the remarkable mystery of being.”

Source : Stephen Levine (1984). “Meetings at the edge: dialogues with the grieving and the dying, the healing and the healed”, Anchor Books
“There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.”

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