"How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites? . . . How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?"

-- Andrew Manis

#Strong Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Hard Work Quotes

“I said that Iâ€™m a fairyâ€¦ and I prefer to dance and fly with the butterfly but they made me talk and walk - and I hate walking and talking.”
“So whatâ€™s the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake, so who the hell cares? So I walked downtown, so these were the high buildings, so let the earthquake come, let it bury me and my sins, so who the hell cares? No good to God or man, die one way or another, a quake or a hanging, it didnâ€™t matter why or when or how.”
“I remember when I was doing The Crucible on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, Lets make sure we remember this.”
“I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.”

Source : "13 Questions With Alfonso Cuaron". Askmen Interview, www.askmen.com.
“I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.”
“I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification. And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.”
“When you have a special gift you donâ€™t realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.”

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