"How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we behave the way we do."

-- Martin Firrell

#Thinking Quotes #Artist Quotes #Way Quotes

“In a key--but commonly overlooked--aspect of obesity, weight gain can be caused by the slightest increases in consumption, if it continues day in and day out.”
“Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related.”
“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.”
“Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.”
“I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos.”
“I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.”
“We all like to think that the line between good and evil is impermeable--that people who do terrible things, such as commit murder, treason, or kidnapping, are on the evil side of this line, and the rest of us could never cross it. But the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram studies revealed the permeability of that line. Some people are on the good side only because situations have never coerced or seduced them to cross over.”

Source : "The Banality of Heroism" by Zeno Franco, Philip Zimbardo, greatergood.berkeley.edu. September 1, 2006.
“The only certainty is death.”

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