"When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people?, is this my hometown, am I who I am?"

-- Azar Nafisi

#Who I Am Quotes #People Quotes #Hometown Quotes

“I am a product of the system, I was born to destroy.”

Source : Song: Soundtrack To The Struggle
“Not everyone who sells Christmas trees believes in Santa Claus.”

Source : "Interview: Matt Barr on his still-mysterious ‘Sleepy Hollow’ rogue". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. October 20, 2014.
“No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.”
“When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. October 14, 2009.
“The witch's hair was too short and too dark for blond. She wasn't sure if that relieved her or disturbed her. Riley had immediately begun his interrogation, and it had gone something like this: Riley: Where is the meeting between your kind and Aden Stone supposed to take place? Witch: Go suck yourself. Riley: Maybe later. Meeting? Witch: Enjoy death. Riley: I have once already. Now, decide to talk or lose a body part. Witch: May I recommend a finger? Riley: Sure. After I take one of your very necessary hands.”
“Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.”

Source : "To Anarchists". "Ithaca Journal", September 17, 1901.
“O execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given. He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.”
“We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine these things being done to us.”

Source : "Keating speech still powerful 25 years on". www.dailymail.co.uk. December 8, 2017.

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