"When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Aki Kaurismaki

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“One moves swiftly and imperceptibly from a world in which affirmative action can`t be ended because its beneficiaries are too weak to a world in which it can`t be ended because its beneficiaries are too strong.”

Source : Christopher Caldwell (2009). “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West”, p.313, Penguin UK
“The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.”
“Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is also expression, the inner form, the plane, the modeling. See what remains after that.”
“Aspirations after the holy,--the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment.”

Source : Maria Jane McIntosh (1851). “Grace and Isabel: Or, to Seem and to be”, p.196
“The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.”

Source : "The Essential Right to Human Dignity". Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 03, 2005.
“Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.”
“I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.”
“I accept myself completely here and now and consciously experience everything I feel, think, say and do (including my emotion backed addictions) as a necessary part of my growth into higher consciousness.”

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