Augusto Boal Quotes
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
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The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.
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A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
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There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.
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Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
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I couldn't kill a fly.
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As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.
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I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't;' I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.
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I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.
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It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.
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The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.
