"Those of us who consider ourselves to be somehow involved in the birthing of a new age, should discover Gaia as well. The idea of Gaia may facilitate the task of converting destructive human activities to constructive and cooperative behavior. It is an idea which deeply startles us, and in the process, may help us as a species to make the necessary jump to planetary awareness."

-- James Lovelock

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“Focusing on others will give you more inï¬‚uence and power than focusing on yourself.”
“As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.”
“There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.”
“My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.”
“I've won a medal, but that's nothing compared to the crown I'll get in Heaven. I see a lot of people in sports who think when they reach a certain level they've got it made, but really, you can only find happiness in the Lord.”
“I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right because it is his right but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech.”
“What was this big sound bite, though, at the time? It was, "Will Donald Trump and his supporters accept the election results." He won.”
“I prefer that animation reach into places where live actionÂ doesn'tÂ go, and itÂ seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

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