"I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 1985 to 1986. The final cost was $175,000. I didn't have that money. It was friends, grants, donations. We saved our bottles for the nickel deposit."

-- Spike Lee

#Principles Quotes #Finals Quotes #Cost Quotes

“Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.”
“I believe in the compelling power of love.”
“But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.”

Source : David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.236, Random House
“The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.”
“Your empty eyes seem to pass me by and leave me dancing with myself.”
“When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.”
“Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.”
“Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.”

Source : Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.245, New York Review of Books

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