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August 27, 2010
"It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." (George Carlin)
August 25, 2010
"It's a big garage." (Jean-Luc Godard, on Los Angeles)
August 24, 2010
"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions." (Claude Levi-Straus)
August 22, 2010
"Cruelty begets cruelty, and kindness begets kindness." (Jack Black, American burglar and author, 1871-1932, You Can't Win, 1926)
August 12, 2010
"That thing that looks like a gaming device in your hand, along with that strange stroking movement you make with your hands is by no means attractive to me, nor am I at all impressed by it. I feel a sense of revulsion for it, in fact. I’m sure in short time there will be an increase in people on trains making those strange masturbatory strokes. It was the same when everyone started reading manga on trains, and when it became cellphones – I’m fed up with it." (Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese filmmaker, on the iPad)
August 11, 2010
"You will find out ... that sleeping can be a form of emotional escape and can with sustained effort be abused." (David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest)
August 9, 2010
"You can't learn it, you have to be born a director. And still, it's not enough to be born one. Your mother has to be an actress." (Sergei Parajanov, Armenian filmmaker)
August 8, 2010
"Everybody wants money — that's why they call it money!" (David Mamet, American playright, screenwriter and director)
August 1, 2010
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." (Blaise Pascal)
"Nothing you can believe is not coming true." (Don Delillo, Underworld)
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