"Bury my heart at Wounded Knee."

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Source : "American Names" l. 30 (1927)

Stephen Vincent Benet

#Heart Quotes #Knees Quotes #Wounded Knee Quotes

“Speaking in tongues is not enough.If we turn men from unchristian religions to christianity we must produce miracles which convince men that Christ lives and He is real today.”
“I was never great, but I was a good player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these old guys who's running around, and the guys I play with, who are all a lot younger, they sort of pity me and sympathize with me. They tolerate me, but we all know that I'm the weak link on the court. And I don't like being the weak link.”
“Art and society was a lot more subject to sexism 50 years ago than it is now. Since that period, there have been plenty of very good female painters, 2006 Turner Prize-winner Tomma Abts among them. How much history needs to pass before an artist is called 'great'? That is the real question.”
“Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let that happen to you."”
“Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What sustainability depends on isn't agri- so much as culture.”

Source : Raj Patel (2009). “The Value Of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy”, p.170, Granta
“Sometimes I will read the whole script just to see what my character is doing, but I won't touch a script that I'm not in because it's just so much more exciting as a fan to me to watch the show as it's happening.”
“After college I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.”

Source : "INTERVIEW | “The First Grader” Director Aims to Uplift and Make You Think". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. May 10, 2011.
“The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.”

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