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“If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.”
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“Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.”
Source : Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, p.70, Simon and Schuster
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“From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.”
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“We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.”
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“He [Taika Watiti] worked on this screenplay for a couple of years and just getting it right and the result is there. He's made really close to a perfect film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople]... Perfect as you can be.”
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“The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.”
Source : Guy Debord (2014). “The Society of the Spectacle”, p.7, Bureau of Public Secrets
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“The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a vision to allow mere facts to interfere with their beliefs, and the sense of superiority that those beliefs give them.”
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“We only have one person to blame, and that's each other.”