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"Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day."
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"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"
"Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility."
"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."
"Teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke."
"Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons)."
"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!"
"More faults are created than cured by professional teachers."
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"I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts."
"If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it."
"Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain."
"I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!"
"Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family."
"I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time."
"Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film."
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