Assimilate Trailer Quotes & Sayings

A quaint conceit, don't you think? — Mercedes Lackey

Of course, all during my childhood, would-be saviors tried to rescue my fellow tribal members. They wanted to rescue me. But, even then, I could only laugh at their platitudes. In those days, the cultural conservatives thought that KISS and Black Sabbath were going to impede my moral development. They wanted to protect me from sex when I had already been raped. They wanted to protect me from evil though a future serial killer had already abused me. They wanted me to profess my love for God without considering that I was the child and grandchild of men and women who'd been sexually and physically abused by generations of clergy. — Sherman Alexie

What I do have to get across is the truth of the moment within the given scene. It's my job, as a director and screenwriter, to create the environment in which all those moments will come together eventually. — James Gray

Growing up elite means learning to value yourself in terms of the measures of success that mark your progress into and through the elite: — William Deresiewicz

Envy suggests inferiority. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Why do you have to hate what you don't understand? — Bobby Hill

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do. — Solange Knowles

I'm not the girl next door. — Carine Roitfeld

Powell's face appeared on screen. "It's true, the doomsday crowd is a little crazy," she said, looking thoughtful. "But that doesn't mean they're wrong. — Forrest Carr

Somebody wanted me to autograph her breast and I kindly refused. She was in college. I thought maybe I shouldn't do that. — Matt Czuchry

In an ideal world I could do hellish things to her and she'd love it but in this world I came to save Perry. No one else seemed to give a shit. — Karina Halle

On one occasion, when he was about to be taken from the interrogation room, he thought he was going to be shot. His knees buckled and he cried out in a pleading voice: "I have not told you everything yet".

-- The Eichmann Trial, page 44 — Deborah E. Lipstadt

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure ... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas. — George W. Crane

Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic? — Natalie Angier

The rebel, dismissed as impractical and zealous, is chronically misunderstood. Those cursed with timidity, fear, or blindness and those who are slaves to opportunism call for moderation and patience. They distort the language of religion, spirituality, compromise, generosity, and compassion to justify cooperation with systems of power that are bent on our destruction. The rebel is deaf to these critiques. The rebel hears only his or her inner voice, which demands steadfast defiance. Self-promotion, positions of influence, the adulation of the public, and the awards and prominent positions that come with bowing before authority mean nothing to the rebel, who understands that virtue is not rewarded. The rebel expects nothing and gets nothing. But for the rebel, to refuse to struggle, to refuse to rebel, is to commit spiritual and moral suicide. — Chris Hedges