"The clear light of science teaches us that we must be our own saviors, if we are to be found worth saving."

-- Luther Burbank

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“Making it [police movie] as realistic as possible. I'm honored to be here because it doesn't happen that often from what I hear. They keep people like me away. "Come down and say 'Hello' and get out!"”
“There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.”
“Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.”
“Sure. Knock yourself out. No, really. Hammer to the head, works every time.â€ Claire”
“Reputation, you know â€“ a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy.”
“I think a person has to believe in something, or search out some kind of faith; otherwise life is empty, nothing. How can you live not knowing why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky... Either you know why you live, or it's all small, unnecessary bits.”
“Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that. That's why I sing these songs. That's why I tell these stories, dammit. No root, no fruit!”

Source : Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.
“If I had to choose, it would be dancing. Dancing is my first passion and it's gotten me where I am today.”

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