"American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World"

-- Adam Gopnik

#Long Quotes #World Quotes #Dressed Up Quotes

“I spend tons of time on the music for the fashion shows. I work with this DJ, Jeremy Healy, and we do, like, four or five sessions during the week leading up to the show where we put the music together.”
“[ Alfred Kinsey] was sexually abusing those children and had sex abusers working for him to stimulate the babies.”
“Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I am shy but I love the freedom of the stage. I need reassurance but at the same time I donâ€™t want it. I hate being afraid but I canâ€™t help wanting to frighten myself. That is how you grow.”
“Where I came from, no one was a writer.”

Source : "Exclusive: Howard Gordon Talks About His New Series HOMELAND and AWAKE, Plus Progress on the 24 Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2011.
“Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination.”
“Iâ€™ve learned that if you canâ€™t get it all together to accomplish this thing called peace, you do at least your part in your life, because thatâ€™s where you can truly make an immediate difference.”
“I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth.”
“When messengers are sent to minister to the inhabitants of this earth, they are not strangers, but from the ranks of our kindred, friends, and fellow beings. Our fathers and mothers, brothers, sisters and friends who have passed away from this earth...bringing messages of love, warning, reproof and instruction, to those whom they had learned to love in the flesh.”

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