"The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible"

-- Toni Cade Bambara

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“What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?”
“If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong.”

Source : Speech at Chapman Law School, August 2005.
“Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.”

Source : Claude M. Bristol (1948). “Magic of Believing”, p.21, Lulu.com
“I'm not the guy whose gonna shoot 10,000 free-throws until I'm Michael Jordan - and it did happen kind of accidentally that I said, "Okay, yeah, I'll try singing."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It is not possible to redefine marriage. Marriage is the union between a man and a woman, has been historically, remains so. It is Alice in Wonderland territory, Orwellian almost, for any Government of any political persuasion to seek to come along and try to re-write the lexicon. It will not do.”

Source : "To an understanding of marriage as merely the end-point of romance". Daily Hansard - Debate, publications.parliament.uk. February 5, 2013.
“You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.”
“I’m always looking to top the last match, I’m always looking to entertain the fans and steal the show. Before I always thought that it was a case of opportunities, but I’m learning that it’s all in my control and I just want to keep on doing what I’m doing by giving my best. I’ve got a couple more magical matches left in me and hopefully at some stage, I guess the biggest honour would be going into the TNA Hall of Fame.”

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