"I love the sound of the distant bugle call in the countryside in early morning I love to be pushed in busy crowds I love the sound of gongs and trumpets along the streets I love circus performances I even wish to die in this moment of glorious encounter."

-- Ai Qing

#Morning Quotes #Wish To Die Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.”
“New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.”

Source : Interview with Alison Gingeras, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2010.
“The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.”

Source : "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.
“I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.”
“If the pro abortionists were not in control of the press, I am convinced that not only would the debate on abortion be over by now (have we really even had a national debate?), but the Pro-Life side would be victorious because we would have seen the pictures every night on television of what is taking place behind the doors of the abortion clinics and hospitals.”
“Many people have fond memories of 'The Monkees.' I fondly remember it, too.”
“Population pressure is the ultimate cause of every war.”

Source : Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket
“From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.”

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