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Quotations
Our Deepest Fear
Marianne Williamson |
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." |
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"Only to the extent that a man exposes himself over and over again to annihilation can that which is indestructible arise within him." |
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The Invitation
Oriah Mountain Dreamer |
"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living,
I want to know what you ache for..." |
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Justice and Spirituality
Thomas Merton |
"The great thing after all is to live, not to pour out your own life in the service of a myth." |
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Love and Power
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
"One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites." |
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Morality and Ethics
Theodore Sturgeon |
"Morals: Society's code for individual survival.
Ethics: An individual's code for society's survival." |
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Education and Ecstasy
George Leonard |
"For the task of preventing the new generation from changing in any deep or significant way is precisely what most societies require of their educators." |
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Allegory of the Cave
From Plato's Republic |
"And those who govern ought not to be lovers of the task... For, if they are, there will be rival lovers, and they will fight." |
Some of Our Favorite Media Sound Bites:
"I can't imagine life without T.V."
"Probably because you can't imagine life!"
From the newspaper cartoon, "Shoe"
"I thank God for everything weird that's happened to me. Without it, I wouldn't be where I am. I wouldn't have been desperate enough to create the way I do--to risk everything."
Jim Carrey, Actor
"I believe in a God force. I don't know if that God force is in heaven or in your heart. But I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to
the truth of their hearts."
Sylvestor Stallone, Actor
"We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something
we are no longer free"
J. Krishnamurti, Philospher
"In a world that is round, you can't take up sides"
Patricia Sun
Lecturer, Author, Teacher of Higher Consciousness
"All movies are a resolution of a conflict between light and shadows.
Light reveals the truth and shadows obscure it."
Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC
"Non fiction film is often called the conscience of the film industry. For the most part, documentaries labor in obscurity for little or no money and not much more prestige.
A documentary that finds an audience is considered a success."
David Heuring
Film and Video Magazine
"I am disturbed that we have moved from substance to sound bite. The public is definitely less well-informed these days because the media caters to public apathy. Serious issues are often ignored and replaced by shallow sensationalism. It's sad, and that's why some things that are happening today
never would have happed thirty years ago."
Former President Gerald Ford
Parade Magazine, July,1998
"Journalists will have to stop writing down to their audience, stop writing only what they think people want to hear and start writing what they hope will inspire people.
I'm convinced the readers will step to the plate,
and this will serve as an inspiraton for all of us."
Harvey Weinstein
Chairman, Miramax Films
"You can't change the world with one film, but people can be affected, one mind, one heart at a time. We play a small part in that. We provide an audience or an individual with a unique experience--
and that's why we keep on going."
Mark Fishkin
Founder of the Mill Valley Film Festival
"Movies have everything--literature, music, ideas, visual imagery...some say they're a way to escape,
I say they're a way to deepen."
From an ad by U.S. Satellite Broadcasting
"Don't watch too much T.V."
Ted Turner
Founder of CNN, TBS and TNT
"Violence is strictly a consumer product in movies now."
From "The End of Violence" film
"Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there."
Rumi
Sufi poet
"I think continuously of those
who were truly great--
the names of those who in their
lives fought for life,
who wore at their hearts
the fire's center.
Born of the sun, they traveled a
short while toward the sun
And left the vivid air signed
with their honor."
Stephan Spender, Poet
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