"We did not lack modestyâ€”on the contraryâ€”but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible."

-- Georges Bataille

#Together Quotes #Modesty Quotes

“The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.”

Source : Daily Telegraph, October 12, 1989.
“You know where the people who killed people in San Bernardino came from. You know where people who did 9/11 came from. You know where the people who did Paris came from, where they transited, where they went. None of them even set foot in Iran. So why are you punishing people who are visiting Iran for that? . . . We're not going to radicalize them. We never have. Your allies have radicalized people who visited.”

Source : "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.
“People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology”
“Girl Rising reminds us that educating the girls of today is an investment in everyone's tomorrow.”
“I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.”
“I've been in clothes-making for 32 years. Think how many times I've made a blazer in my life, how many shirts I've made. What's interesting is to strive for a certain perfection, and what's perfect is nothing.”
“It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.”

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