"Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence."

-- Salman Rushdie

#People Quotes #Atheism Quotes #Society Quotes

“I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Guns know no policy except destruction.”
“It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?”

Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.279, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Science can explain what's happening down inside atoms and what's happening at the edge of the universe, but it cannot explain consciousness. It's a paradox--withou t consciousness there would be no science, but science doesn't know what to do, at all, with consciousness.”
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
“Who am I to blow against the wind?”
“Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.”
“I have a lot of respect for marriage.”

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