"Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me."

-- Giordano Bruno

“You can't abuse your body and you need to work hard on your weaknesses. Everyone likes to focus on the things they are good at. But when you focus on the things you are weak at, it makes you a much better athlete.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“Real film is light; digital is electricity.”
“What all women have in common is that they share most of the unpaid work of the world.”

Source : Hilda Scott (1984). “Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty”, Pandora Pr
“In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the public authorities can be outgunned or bribed, the vibrancy of the private sector can be pathological.”
“What I really intend to achieve is to be that fly on the wall, and to try and observe as much as I can without affecting what I've seen. I want to get a sense that what I'm seeing in a place would have happened had I not be there. Were I to make myself an important presence, that would be lost. The danger of a certain other kind of reporting is that people give you what they think you are seeking. People know what you want. When I was traveling in Congo and Rwanda and people asked me what I wanted, I would say, "Nothing. I just want to be here." And that immediately disarmed them.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Has anybody here ever been driving along in their car, smoking a cigarette, and you flick it out the window, and you drive for a few miles, and you start to smell smoke, and you turn around, and you look in the backseat, and grandma is playing with herself?”
“So, because I have a mental illness I should disappear and hide? Ever since I went into hospital, all I have heard and read about is people telling me what they think I should do.”
“We wanted the best, but it turned out as always”

Source : "Viktor Chernomyrdin obituary" by Jonathan Steele, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2010.

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