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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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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We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.
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When we overthrew Mubarak, we did this in 18 days. And because we were very naive and very unexperienced in revolutions, we thought that that was it. It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days. So we were very naive.
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Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.
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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.
