"The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it."

-- Marguerite Duras

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“The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment.”
“Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.”
“In the point of view of my personal feelings, I love the music as well as the cinema, but the future of a trumpet player - in the money point of view, but also any point of view - is very short on expectations. The life of a moviemaker can be glorious and wonderful. It can put your life in the best of possibilities. I decided to forget music. Not forget, because this is impossible, but to work in cinema, and just to be someone who loves music, and who tries to make music with his films.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.”
“I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.”

Source : "The Definitive Imagined Emma Watson Commencement Speech" by Katie Calautti, www.mtv.com. May 26, 2014.
“I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.”
“If the rest of the world likes Americans only when we're dying, the rest of the world can go to hell.”
“Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace.”

Source : Darlene Zschech (2004). “Extravagant Worship: Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty Who Was and Is, and Is to Come...”, p.47, Bethany House

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