"[W]e must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of he nation's and world's most powerless and impoverished people."

-- Niger Innis

#People Quotes #Risk Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I'm a jerk, that's who I am. I'm like everybody else.”
“If the melodies are strong, it's much easier to see which way I can take them sound-wise.”
“Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.”
“It's really kind of overwhelming and staggering to me how many people I know that have mental illness and there's not one thing that works. You just have to go on your search. It's like a journey of, "How am I gonna get well?"”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be.”
“Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.”

Source : Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf
“If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories.”
“My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things. Therefore if I show my life 365 days, moments from those days, it will reflect and it will have connection with lives of all of us.”

Source : "Short Films Coming Soon to an iPod Near You". "All Things Considered" with Debbie Elliott, www.npr.org. November 5, 2006.

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