"The Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his clarion call to all the Jews in the world to 'organize, organize, organize,' until every Jew in America must stand up and be counted - counted with us - or prove himself, wittingly or unwittingly, of the few who are against their own people."

-- Louis D. Brandeis

#America Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.”
“I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene . . . and I'm in the Hollywood Hills. So I thought, 'This is interesting.' You have this setup that seems to be based in some reality and you can only wonder where Black's going to go with this.”
“Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence ...”

Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker
“Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.”
“Merely knowing your craft will never be enough to make a picture. If you ever amount to anything at all, it will be because you were true to that deep desire or ideal which made you seek artistic expression in pictures.”
“I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.”
“There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.”
“I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.84, Penguin

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