"Michael Moore's first big film "Roger & Me" has an extremely powerful scene in which a family in Flint, Michigan is evicted right around Christmas. That was an inspiration to me to document the stories of people living on the edge as they're happening. My aim in "A House Divided" was to explore the urgent challenges of housing inequity in New York through the eyes of Norman Lear."

-- Solly Granatstein

#Powerful Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.”
“I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of deathamong Americans. What you don't know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright's character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.”
“New information and communications technologies can improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, but only if such technologies are designed from the beginning so that everyone can use them. Given the explosive growth in the use of the World Wide Web for publishing, electronic commerce, lifelong learning and the delivery of government services, it is vital that the Web be accessible to everyone.”
“Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.”
“It is because everything must come to an end that everything is so beautiful.”
“Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.”
“I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.”
“Of all the creatures that man kills for his amusement there is only one that he kills out of hatredâ€”other men. Man hates nothing as much as himself. That is why war is called the leprosy of the human soul.”

Source : Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

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