"I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky."

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Source : David Rakoff (2015). “The Uncollected David Rakoff: Including the entire text of Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish”, p.164, Anchor

David Rakoff

#Self Quotes #Identity Quotes #Lucky Quotes

“In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.”
“Everybody can justify their actions. We all think that we're doing things for reasons that are meaningful to us. Maybe not to other people, but to us.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Weâ€™re turning everything on the planet into food for humans so weâ€™re cutting down the rainforests, displacing all of the animals, and weâ€™re doing all this to feed humans... ... Imagine if there were only 2 billion people polluting? Weâ€™re already overpopulated. I feel weâ€™ve become a parasite on this planet. If this population keeps growing, weâ€™ll just keep devouring the planet, and I donâ€™t think itâ€™s going to stand for that very long.”
“I had a good time working with Russell Crowe, Ron Howard and Ed Harris. It was a great cast and Russell worked really hard, doing tons of research and questioning everything”
“When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back.”
“I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop.”
“I couldn't help but see; I wasn't blind. I couldn't help but admire; I wasn't dead”

Source : Lori Handeland (2014). “Rising Moon”, p.29, Lori Handeland
“When a manufacturing company in Spain looks to IBM for a solution to a problem, they expect us to bring the best of IBM worldwide to it, not just the experience of IBM Spain.”

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