"Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving."

-- Mortimer Adler

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“When I'm in the water I feel as though nothing bad has happened. I think about the fish, how they don't know what's going on. Their world is unchanged. Actually it's probably better now to be a tuna or a sardine or a salmon. Less chance of ending up as somebody's lunch.”
“But the cinephile is â€¦ a neurotic! (Thatâ€™s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and itâ€™s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, â€œWhen you love life, you go to the movies,â€ itâ€™s false! Itâ€™s exactly the opposite: when you donâ€™t love life, or when life doesnâ€™t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.”
“We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.”
“Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.”
“Sometimes people think it's what you say when you're in a huge group that makes you a leader. But sometimes it's the one-on-one conversations you have with guys individually, just getting to know them. I think I've done that a lot. Not intentionally - it just happens.”
“Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.”
“The upside of being a part of a post-civil rights generation is that black folks really are more diverse. But the flash point for that diversity is caught up in Hip Hop. So you have a generation that says, 'I'm gonna wear my sneakers, and I'm gonna wear my pants how I like themThen you have a generation that says, 'I did not get bit by dogs for you to conduct yourself this way. Then the younger generation says, 'Yes, you did. This is what freedom means.'”
“I don't think we know yet what broadcast television did to us, although it obviously did lots. I don't think we're far enough away from it yet to really get a handle on it. We get these things, I think they start changing us right away, we don't notice we're changing. Our perception of the whole thing shifts, and then we're in the new way of doing things, and we take it for granted.”

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