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Those Quotes by Jonas Mekas
- My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things. Therefore if I show my…
- As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always…
- In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to…
- In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have…
- I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long I keep the…
- I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on miserable…
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- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle