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Joe Berlinger's documentary 'Whitey' is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can't take your eyes off the screen. — Leonard Maltin
The result is a twitching convulsion of vicious drivel passing itself off as a movie, which can be best appreciated by the kind of people… — Rex Reed
At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me… — Gordon Parks
Many sisters complain that people don't want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man… — Omar Suleiman
It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a… — Danny Elfman
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.Â Once this lesson is learned, people lose their incentive to… — Ivan Illich
The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. .… — Langdon Winner
No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done,… — Marilyn vos Savant
I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I… — Tom Daley
I love the feeling of the weightlessness. I always love being in the water and to combine jumping off the side into the water feels… — Tom Daley
I want to go to a place where I can go to a football game, take off my shirt, paint my chest and major in… — Andrew Ferguson
More than any other drummer, Ringo Starr changed my life. The impact and memory of that band on Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 will never… — Max Weinberg
You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck,… — James Agee
Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers,… — James Agee
Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich.… — Robert D. Kaplan
It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound...… — Michel Hazanavicius
Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly… — Norton Juster
I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept… — Norton Juster
I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and… — Dick Dale
But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the… — Jared Diamond

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