"I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Olympia Dukakis

#Important Quotes #Despair Quotes #Being Me Quotes

“I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.”
“We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.”
“I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old and I still play it. As a kid I liked Les Pauls and Strats, but they had limitations for the kind of playing I wanted to do.”
“I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.”

Source : "Q&A – Dean Norris (Hank Schrader)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. May 2010.
“Man is not a machine, ... although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus. .... No other organism, and certainly no computer, can be made to confront genuine human problems in human terms. ... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the future, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns.”
“The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.”
“Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.”
“I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.”

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