"In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people."

-- Edgar Snow

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“I didnâ€™t careâ€¦about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.”
“With photography, I like to leave a lot of the story, even to myself.”

Source : "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.
“I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didnâ€™t want to continue opera because I wanted to act.”
“Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.”
“I think people who make checklists are the most miserable and alone because they are looking for the perfect Entenmann's that is delicious and has no calories. Please, you want a brunette with a sense of humor, a doctorate and HIV-negative status? Good luck, honey. Love isn't so frequent that you can put conditions on it.”
“One by one, I could find a house that somebody had restored properly, and then another one, and now it's like a virus. Everybody in Palm Springs wants to do it.”
“They died for me,â€ I say. That feels important”
“Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the apple ever fell on Newton's head. But once it did, and he understood it, then we as a society were free to harness this principle to create, among other things, airline flight.”

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