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"I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history."
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"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."
"Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself."
"Most of Jesus' life is told through the four Gospels of the New Testament, known as the Canonical gospels, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These are not biographies in the modern sense but accounts with allegorical intent. They are written to engender faith in Jesus as the Messiah and the incarnation of God, and not to provide factual data about Jesus's life. This left the door of exaggeration open. And through that door all kinds of mystical non-sense crept in and made place right alongside the good philosophical teachings of Jesus."
"It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery."
"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."
"There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive."
"The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4."
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"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!"
"Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box."
"Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film."
"Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family."
"Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain."
"The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra."
"I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around."
"Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives."
"I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know."
"I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once."
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