"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“I think one of the most pivotal moments in modern American history was Donald Trump's immediate withdraw from TPP.”
“My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.”
“I probably spend six hours on just my mascara. I like to get that "Hi I want to ******* kill you" look.”
“He's like a demented ferret up a wee drainpipe.”
“When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.”
“Faith is a vulnerable thing, not a battle.”

Source : "ISMS" by Ryan Phipps, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2016.
“Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com
“I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory. That's what all my movies are about. That and the idea that we're in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, when actually we're just a bunch of apes running around. My films are about people who think they're connected to something, although they're really not.”

Source : "Predilections" by Mark Singer, The New Yorker, www.errolmorris.com. February 06, 1989.

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