"American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished."

-- John F. Kennedy

#Alive Quotes #Growing Quotes #American History Quotes

“The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.”
“An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to us threatened with fragmentation. The resulting political chaos could well be filled by elements hostile to our values and sympathetic to our adversaries.”
“Exile (being where we don't want to be with people we don't want to be with) forces a decision: Will I focus my attention on what is wrong with the world and feel sorry for myself? Or will I focus my energies on how I can live at my best in this place I find myself?...'I will do my best with what is here.'”
“When you can see your unborn children in her arms, you know you really love a woman.”
“I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even here.”

Source : Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.185, Simon and Schuster
“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”
“It's very early in the market. I don't want to pretend I know exactly how this rolls out. But there's been an enormous amount of interest.”
“Imagine--the whole world wired to Harry Cohn's ass!”

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