Haskell Wexler Quotes
That force - which the system tried to laugh at - when it finally broke through and the movement was recognized, the media said they were "just a bunch of spoiled kids, dope smokers who don't know what the hell they want." To demean it as something laughable - but that didn't work for very long. It's still an ongoing struggle; they're trying to find out how to fight. It's very exciting times.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.
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From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.
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I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.
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It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.
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Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir.
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
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Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.
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Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.
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In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
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There's not enough black films out there. There's not enough Latin films, or films that have an Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern lead. The list goes on and on.
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I used to teach dance lessons.
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Good energy, even if it’s not focused. Bad technique, but that’s understandable and it can be corrected. Too much enthusiasm. There’s no shame in honorable combat, but there shouldn’t be so much unnatural pleasure. The man with the greatest thirst for blood ends up drinking at Hades’s table.
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I do know that there is no reason for me to drown myself from sorrow since I haven't yet tried to achieve anything great.
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The apartheid system renounces no violence.
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And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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That force - which the system tried to laugh at - when it finally broke through and the movement was recognized, the media said they were "just a bunch of spoiled kids, dope smokers who don't know what the hell they want." To demean it as something laughable - but that didn't work for very long. It's still an ongoing struggle; they're trying to find out how to fight. It's very exciting times.
