"There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities."

-- Jean-Jacques Annaud

#Football Quotes #Team Quotes #Reality Quotes

“There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.”
“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.”
“Can you believe the weather?'...'Actually, I CAN believe the weather. What I can't believe is that I'm actually having a conversation about the weather.”
“We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1988). “Inner Experience”, p.32, SUNY Press
“Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again”
“People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.”
“if the world is not safe for babies you are never going to get a democracy worth having.”
“For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors.”

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