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[Film Loulou] is about Loulou, a ghost from the 1920s. She was a flapper and she was a dancer, had kind of a free lifestyle, then she ended up marrying a man who wanted to kind of keep her in the house and control her environment a little bit more and so she committed suicide.
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...the core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed
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You’ll have to be my conscience.†He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. “Mine isn’t going to grow back.
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Success breeds a disregard of the possibility of failure.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.
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True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.
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Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds.
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...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
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Sometimes going in for a hard tackle generates a louder cheer than a great pass.
