"And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?"

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Source : Discussion at the Seattle Independent Media Center, August 10, 2003.

Ward Churchill

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Done Quotes

“The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.”
“Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.”
“Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes”
“We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark.”
“Friends told me that the latest trend, at least in Europe, is public sex. They showed me some clips, and they're terrifying. A couple enters a streetcar, half-full, simply takes a seat, undresses, and starts to do it. You can see from surprised faces that it's not staged. It's pure working-class suburb. But what's fascinating is that the people all look, and then they politely ignore it. The message is that even if you're together in public with people, it still counts as private space.”
“Things are never as good as you think they are or ever as bad as you think they are.”
“Videos are tricky because stuff sounds amazing on paper and it seems like it's going to be this mystical experience and you're going to look back and go, "Wow, that was magic." But more times than not, it doesn't end up that way, so I never know what I'm going to get.”
“What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing whats next and not following the trend of whats now.”

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