"In the mid-1980s, however, the Estonian TV programmers came up with a clever idea: they asked Moscow for millions of rubles to make propaganda in Estonia to fight the Finnish programs' popularity. They got millions from the government, but what they made was not propaganda at all! They simply made good, entertaining programs - no one in Estonia recognized them as propaganda, only Russia thought it was, so they got away with it. Of course, Russia provided their own propaganda programs, but Estonians knew to avoid them."

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com

Jaak Kilmi

#Clever Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.”
“I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.”

Source : "Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified'" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2011.
“For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?”

Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”
“The decline of institutional Christianity over the last 40 or 50 years has empowered a side of American religion that has always been there. The sort of do-it-yourself, "create your own Jesus" kind of faith. But, the forms that faith takes do have a real reason they are so appealing.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“Give him a crowd, a gallery worthy of his best effort, and the old warrior will put on his show... He isn't what he use to be. But pack the stands, turn up the lights, and who is it brings down the house with his act? The Babe!”
“Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?”
“The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath.”
“I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.”

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