"The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government."

-- Michael Mandelbaum

#Government Quotes #World Quotes #United States Quotes

“As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people. You search for those projects and you hope to realize the potential in a project.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Get some money, buy a red coffeepot, move out. Find a new place to plug it in.”
“I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.”
“You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like thisâ€¦ Ready â€ â€œReady.â€ â€œAt least I tried.”
“Almost everyone working in mainstream comics started off as a starry-eyed kid reading and loving comics. We're all fans, and that's great. But when we start working on company-owned comics professionally, we have to think like storytellers instead of fans. Editors aren't looking to hire the biggest fans of the characters. They're looking to hire the best creators with the best ideas.”
“Growing up in the suburbs, the worst part was definitely being black. The best part was maybe also being black. Just having that perspective, being on the outside while also being on the inside. That's kind of how I've felt my whole life.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Perhaps I should say that in general there are three solutions to such a situation. I mean not only in Holland, but everywhere where there are minority groups: in America, in Vietnam with the Chinese. Everywhere there is the same problem. But there are fundamentally three, actually only two possible solutions. A possible solution is that the despised minority is able to establish its own state somewhere else. The other solution is a higher or lesser degree of assimilation. And the third possibility, which is not a solution at all, is the permanence of the tension and conflict over time.”

Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
“Love is an ugly, terrible business practiced by fools. Itâ€™ll trample your heart and leave you bleeding on the floor. And what does it really get you in the end? Nothing but a few incredible memories that you canâ€™t ever shake. The truth is, thereâ€™s gonna be other girls out there. I mean, I hope. But Iâ€™m never gonna get another first love. That one is always gonna be her.”

Source : "Little Manhattan". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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