"We are either kings or pawns of men"

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

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“The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people that we won't succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we'll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.' I have not lost that sense.”
“I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.”
“She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past.”
“The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.”
“I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.”
“My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.”
“I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in.”
“The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.”

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