"But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media."

-- Stanley Crouch

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“Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.”
“Business is not a spiritual matter, and my business decisions are not based on spiritual considerations. When I founded the Essence of Life, a project aimed at teaching tolerance and respectful dialogue, the person appointed to head it was Irit Atzmon, a former colonel in the army. Can anything be more down-to-earth than that?”
“I've had it where things didn't go well for me with movies or something that got canceled.”
“Never despise small beginnings, and don't belittle your own accomplishments. Remember them and use them as inspiration as you go on to the next thing. When you venture outside your comfort zone, wherever the starting point may be, it's kind of a big deal.”
“hate is cancer of the soul!”
“To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy. This is success!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.”

Source : Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.18
“I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.”

Source : Stan Brakhage (1982). “Brakhage scrapbook: collected writings, 1964-1980”

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