"I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have."

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Source : "Jonas Mekas: Anthology Film Archives". Interview with Terence Teh, www.dazeddigital.com. April 27, 2011.

Jonas Mekas

#Reality Quotes #Essence Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.”
“On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.”

Source : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 22, 2002.
“Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.”
“Laypeople are a kind of nuclear energy in the Church on a spiritual level. A layperson caught up with the gospel and living next to other people can "contaminate" two others, and these two, four others, etc. Since lay Christians number not only tens of thousands like the clergy but hundreds of millions, they can truly play a decisive role in spreading the beneficial light of the gospel in the world.”
“The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.”
“You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.”
“A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.”
“Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.”

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