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Can any one feel any respect for a government that accords rights only to the privileged classes, and none to the workers?

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• I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Never
  • Cook
  • Eggs

• Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Music
  • Art
  • Dream

• Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Democracy
  • Form
  • Worship

• When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Up
  • Country
  • Small

• My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Music
  • Father

• We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Good
  • Job
  • Want

• When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Movies
  • First
  • Hollywood

• Part of our job as storytellers is to show people pockets of the world that they don't know. The more we understand, the more we don't judge.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Great
  • Together

• Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Working
  • Lucky
  • Incredible

• Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Deep

• Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Fire

• If India grows steadily and does the structural things right and carefully unties knots, builds an institutional process which sort of cleans up the corruption and the baggage in the system, I see it as a wonderful marathon.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Up
  • Process
  • India

• Colombians are sick of 'Narcos' stories because Colombia is a country that has changed so much. It's a country that's completely different from the country that we see in 'Narcos.' They reconstructed themselves in 25 years, which is amazing.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Different
  • Country
  • Amazing

• Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Art

• The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments and try to bring in what your gut is telling you.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Moments
  • Try
  • Intuition

• The camera and I have always had good chemistry.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Good
  • Camera
  • Chemistry

• Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Day
  • Dreams
  • Socialism

• No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Work
  • Fear

• Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination . . . for saying out loud the things we were thinking, for guiding us back to ourselves and returning to us what was ours all along.

  

  Pam Houston
  • Thinking
  • Courage
  • Gay

• I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Success

• I went to the premier of 'Stardust,' which starred Michelle Pfeiffer. I nearly died when I saw her on the red carpet – she's so beautiful.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Beautiful
  • Died
  • Her

• We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and arational.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Culture
  • Mean
  • Individual

• Can any one feel any respect for a government that accords rights only to the privileged classes, and none to the workers?

  

  August Spies
  • Government
  • Rights
  • Workers