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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus. ”
I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works. ”
Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate. ”
You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life. ”
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live. ”
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. ”
I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education. ”
I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming. ”
I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films. ”
When people are training to become singers, they all have moments when they hit a wall. ”