"I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Bill de Blasio

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“Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.”
“A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind of karma, a buddha transforms it. Heaven and hell are nothing to him. But the awareness of a mortal is dim compared to that of a buddha, who penetrates everything, inside and out.”
“One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.”
“Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?”
“We made four feature films with Sherwood Baptist. The wonderful thing was the church (members) volunteered. It was an awesome atmosphere of attitudes. The hard part was (that) all four of the first feature films we made take place in modern-day Albany, Georgia. We know that not all of our films going to be (set in) modern-day Albany, Georgia.”

Source : "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.
“Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.”
“His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.184
“The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.”

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