"These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold."

-- Leo Tolstoy

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“If I was a young director starting off, there's so many tools at your disposal now to do things relatively inexpensively that it's a great time to learn your chops and do some cool music videos. If I started all over again, I'd still be doing music videos, I'd just be doing them very differently. It's very difficult for me to do them now, but for young kids out there that love music and want to tackle a different art form - and I do think music video is an art form - that's a very cool thing to do.”
“I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.”
“Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?”
“And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?”
“I felt there was a certain amount of violence in the graphic and that it could still be cheated on screen so you could still have a hard PG-13 and open up your audience. Anybody can read the graphic novel. If you're 14, you can go out and buy it, and I felt that if you're 14 you should be able to see this movie [The Loosers].”
“I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.”

Source : "Chef Dan Barber pioneers ethical approach to creating flavor but may prickle some purists", www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2012.
“I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.”
“The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.”

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