"The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui."

-- Helen Westley

#World Quotes #Ennui Quotes #Conquest Quotes

“I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.”
“He is much stronger than I think I am. He is mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar through the clouds, while I often feel like the cloud itself.”
“Life is supposed to be lived for God and for others.”
“Something inside you emerges....an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.”
“The underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing power, and more sophisticated techniques used by establishment mass media to falsify, misrepresent, misquote, rule out of consideration as a priori ridiculous, or simply ignore and blot out of existence: data, books, discoveries that they consider prejudicial to establishment interest...”
“Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?”

Source : Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Some people have a thick skin and you donâ€™t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams.”
“I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.”

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