"What the world is like from a nine-year-old's point of view? My memory is that nothing is explained to you, you've got to try to figure it out, pick up clues from the people around you, try to figure it out from their reactions."

-- Spike Jonze

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“I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.”
“To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious beauties and is capable of profound and impressive interpretations. What is deeply objectionable about most of these interpretations is that they allow the believer to say Yes while evading any No.”

Source : "The Faith of a Heretic" by Walter Kaufmann, 1959.
“We have to stop thinking about ourselves so much and start thinking about the environment. We have to change.”
“One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.”
“There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a billion people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.”

Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
“One: There is a low limit of weight [of about] 50 pounds beyond which it is impossible for an animal to fly. Two: The animal machine is far more effective than any we can hope to make. Three: The weight of any machine constructed for flying, including fuel and engineer, cannot be less than three or four hundred pounds. Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?”
“My attitude is, if someone sees a little somethin' somethin', don't look if you don't like it.”
“I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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