Quotes
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George Orwell
"All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice." --
George Orwell
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“I think emotion is just anything that is emotional, you know, people can feel with music. Music is already so emotional, like the strings, the chords, and the notes and the melodies and stuff. And then you throw on a topic that everyone can relate to. That's gonna be real music.”
“Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.”
“All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.”
“In hindsight, I wish I had done more.”
“There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when you're buying them stuff. It's hard being a parent, but I laugh a lot and smile a lot and really enjoy it. The ratio of laughter to sadness is higher. There's part of me that wants to broadcast that. Parenting only affirmed what I already cared about, and that's good”
Source : "Seeking a 'Better' world". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. October 9, 2005.
“I want her to be powerful on these covers, and sometimes that's a quiet power and other times it's a more bombastic power. But when you're going to have a book out there that's called Wonder Woman and she's on it, you have a responsibility to put out a certain kind of image.”
“She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.”
“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”