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“I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.”
Source : Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.26, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“Changi became my university instead of my prison. ... Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life - the high and the low roads. I studied and absorbed everything I could from physics to counterfeiting, but most of all I learned the art of surviving.”
Source : "James Clavell, Best-Selling Storyteller of Far Eastern Epics, Is Dead at 69" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. September 8, 1994.
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“As a former Republican, I represent a group of Americans who all too often have no one to speak for them. This group doesn't necessarily have a name. We've been called 'moderates,' but that term can be misleading.”
Source : "Lincoln Chafee DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
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“The delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.”
Source : Samuel Shem (2010). “The House of God”, p.311, Penguin
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“Strange dreams are better than no dreams at all.”
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“...and the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered a gasp for breath It flushed her amber skin with the blood of its bloom.”
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“There is no clear sign that the economy is turning the corner in a meaningful way.”
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“Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.”