"And most of all, it means continually drawing connections among these seemingly disparate strugglesâ€”asserting, for instance, that the logic that would cut pensions, food stamps, and health care before increasing taxes on the rich is the same logic that would blast the bedrock of the earth to get the last vapors of gas and the last drops of oil before making the shift to renewable energy."

-- Naomi Klein

#Struggle Quotes #Mean Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.”
“The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method of procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers.”
“Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.”
“It really doesn’t matter how the manager is. If you make a mistake and the manager is calm, you still feel terrible for making that mistake. It helps to have a manager who can be cool but as an individual you tend to be in control of your own emotions.”

Source : Interview with Chris Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com. April 8, 2012.
“Cinema is always a political art, at the end.”
“I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave.”
“I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.”
“The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing--but instead, Jesus is bearing it, and bearing it all alone. Why alone? He's alone so that we might never be alone.”

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