"Speech is the mirror of action."

-- Solon

#Mirrors Quotes #Speech Quotes #Action Quotes

“The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.”
“Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.”

Source : "Matilda/ Taglines". www.imdb.com. 1996.
“After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "revolutionary" types around the world don't realize the importance of freedom of the press and the air, a right to peaceably assemble and discuss anything, including the dangers of such discussions.”
“I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.”
“People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.”

Source : Interview with Andrea Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. July, 1995.
“I'm not a peak oil person. I'm not a biohazard apocalyptic kind of freak. I don't have a supply of weapons or gold bars under my house.”
“Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.”

Source : 'The Candidate' (1764) l. 57
“Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it was happening. That's what God is all about, and that's where I get my strength.”

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