"I think there's a general sense that the belief structures that existed and carried civilization forward have weakened to the point where they can no longer support it. They are not powerful enough to do it anymore because there is not enough serious belief in them."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

James Toback

#Powerful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Support Quotes

“I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.”
“The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks, and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted.”

Source : 'Clinging to the Wreckage' (1982) ch. 7
“Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.”
“To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.”
“Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn.”
“When it comes to dividing Americans on the basis of their gender, I know a little something about the subject.”
“I say not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag.”
“Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'”

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