"I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Emir Kusturica

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“A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.”

Source : "Composers on Music : An Anthology of Composers' Writings from Palestrina to Copland". Book by Sam Morgenstern, p. 60, 1956.
“Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them the frequency-holders. They are here to generate consciousness through the activities of daily life, through their interactions with others as well as through "just being."”
“I am fast and very powerful on the court, so this is what matters.”
“The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, "Ah Maestro, you are a genius!" Paderewski tartly replied, "Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!" What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.”
“The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.”
“I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world,”

Source : "Supernatural’ Star Misha Collins’ Charity, Random Acts, Teams With MacDonald Motorsports For NASCAR Sponsorship" by Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 31, 2012.
“I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.”
“Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.”

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