"Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him."

-- Jonathan Swift

#Father Quotes #Lying Quotes #Devil Quotes

“My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.”
“Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track.”
“But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.”
“If you are thinking, you can't understand Zen. Anything that can be written in a book, anything that can be said - all this is thinking . . . but if you read with a mind that has cut off all thinking, then Zen books, sutras and Bibles are all the truth. So is the barking of a dog or the crowing of a rooster. All things are teaching you at every moment, and these sounds are even better teaching than Zen books.”
“I think you can refine what you do, and become more consistent. And you write better songs that have a better shape and a better feeling. You evolve into and out of things, and go through stages, but, ultimately, you do improve.”
“The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.”

Source : Franz Boas (1969). “Race and Democratic Society”, p.27, Biblo & Tannen Publishers
“For me cinema is image, sound, and the faces and bodies and, yes, voices, of my actors, and sometimes the words that they are saying, but not only the words.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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