"Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it."

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Source : Source: www.sfgate.com

Kaija Saariaho

#Position Of Power Quotes #Polemics Quotes #Wells Quotes

“I am still working on patter and presentation.”
“Is God an end or is He a means?”
“I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.”
“If you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up into an electuary with honey, it is a first-rate remedy for cough and spitting of blood.”

Source : Nicholas Culpeper (1992). “Culpeper's Complete Herbal”
“Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people; including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.”
“The most beautiful gift I have received in my life is the trust of Clint Eastwood. When you have this respect and this kind of responsibility on your shoulders, of course you bring the best of yourself.”

Source : "Cécile de France on working with Clint Eastwood". Interview with Michael Ordoña, www.sfgate.com. October 17, 2010.
“One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may separate final effects from ultimate causes lying outside the domain of that field of science.”
“Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the advertisers.”

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