Gantenbrink Documentary Quotes & Sayings

Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become. — Felicity Huffman

Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks. — Michel Onfray

Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. — Toni Morrison

He's an irrelevant person. Learn to spot irrelevant people. Don't expect someone who doesn't know who they are to care who you are. — Mhairi McFarlane

Instantly they fettered him, and carried him away to the regiment. There he was made to wheel about to the right, and to the left, to draw his rammer, to return his rammer, to present, to fire, to march, and they gave him thirty blows with a cudgel. The next day he did his exercise a little less badly, and he received but twenty blows. The day following they gave him only ten, and he was regarded by his comrades as a prodigy. Candide, — Voltaire

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you. — Amy Winehouse

Evolution, or its driving engine natural selection, has no foresight. In every generation within every species, the individuals best equipped to survive and reproduce contribute more than their fair share of genes to the next generation. The consequence, blind as it is, is the nearest approach to foresight that nature permits. [...] It is always tinkering: here shrinking a bit, there expanding a bit, constantly adjusting, putting on and taking off, optimising immediate reproductive success. Survival in future centuries doesn't enter into the calculation, for the good reason that it isn't really a calculation at all. It all happens automatically, as some genes survive in the gene pool and others don't. — Richard Dawkins

I get quite excited about things other people have worn. I went through a phase as a student when I wore a lot of 1940s tea dresses. — Ashley Jensen

The presence of a good friend brings big smiles. — Debasish Mridha