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| | Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rather than pushed by our memories.
—Jesse Jackson |
| | If we are paying attention to facts, we end up as accountants. If you find out that yes, here or there, a fact has been modified or has been imagined, it will be a triumph of the accountants to tell me so. But we are into illumination for the sake of a deeper truth, for an ecstasy of truth, for something we can experience once in a while in great literature and great cinema. I’m imagining and staging and using my fantasies. Only that will illuminate us. Otherwise, if you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.
— Werner Herzog |
| | The past is never dead; it's not even past.
— William Faulkner |
| | Look down well! You must take a lesson in abysses.
— Jules Verne |
| | Life is trying things to see if they work.
— Ray Bradbury |
| | Design consists of creating things for clients who may not know what they want, until they see what you've done, then they know exactly what they want, but it's not what you did.
— Brian Sooy |
| | The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes, ah, that is where the art resides.
— Arthur Schnabel |
| | In times of change the learners will inherit the earth while the knowers will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world which no longer exists.
— Eric Hoffer |
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