"We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us."

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Source : "Director: ‘Margin Call’ Relevant To Occupy Movement", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

J. C. Chandor

#Government Quotes #America Quotes #People Quotes

“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
“When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.”
“You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale, an organism â€“ environment, a symbiosis of cell and soul.”
“Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another”
“England is a nation of shopkeepers.”
“Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.”
“Art is too long, and life is too short,”
“If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, 'This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?' And eventually he dies of thirst.”

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